Lipowa Street, Białystok
Lipowa Street is a representative street at the center of Białystok, Poland, running from the Kościuszko Square in Białystok, Kościuszko Square (corner of Spółdzielcza Street) to Romana Dmowskiego Niepodległości Square (corner of Krakowska street). The street is made up of low buildings mostly of 2-3 floors with various shops, offices and restaurants located at the ground floor. Name The name of the street comes from a row of Tilia, lime which grew here in the 18th-20th centuries. Over the centuries, the name of this exclusive and representative Białystok street in the city center took various names: Choroska, Tykocka, Nowolipie, Lipowa, Józefa Piłsudskiego, Sovetskaya, Lindenstrasse, Józefa Stalina to finally return to its original name after World War II: Lipowa. History image:Biełastok, Lipavaja. Беласток, Ліпавая (1940).jpg, 200px, View of the street in 1940, when Białystok Soviet annexation of Western Belorussia, became part of the Byelorussian S ...
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Street
A street is a public thoroughfare in a city, town or village, typically lined with Building, buildings on one or both sides. Streets often include pavements (sidewalks), pedestrian crossings, and sometimes amenities like Street light, streetlights or Bench (furniture), benches. A street can be as simple as a level patch of Dirt road, dirt, but is more often pavement (material), paved with a hard, durable surface such as Tarmacadam, tarmac, concrete, cobblestone or brick. It can be designed for both social activity and movement. Originally, the word ''street'' simply meant a paved road (). The word ''street'' is still sometimes used informally as a synonym for ''road'', for example in connection with the ancient Watling Street, but city residents and urban planning, urban planners draw a significant modern distinction: a road's main function is transportation, while streets facilitate public interaction.
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