parkway

(pärk'wā')
n.

1. (Abbr. Pkwy or Pky) A broad landscaped highway, often divided by a planted median strip.
2. Mississippi Valley, Ohio Valley, & Western U.S. See parking (sense 3). See Regional Note at parking.

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Scenic road pioneered in America, laid out in an area of preserved forest or a swathe of enhanced landscape. A precedent was Olmsted's series of connected suburban public parks linked by road at Boston, MA, designed with Charles Eliot (1859–97), and completed 1902. However, the earliest appears to be that laid out (1913–23) by G. D. Clarke from Bronx Park to Kensico Dam, and this was created for recreational motoring, with access prohibited to anything other than private cars. W. H. Manning's Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Cincinnati Parkway followed, then Merritt Parkway, CT (1934–40), and S. W. Abbott's Blue Ridge Parkway (designed 1935) linking the Shenandoah and the Great Smoky Mountains National Parks. The design of parkways was to influence that of motorways.

Bibliography

• Eliot (1902)
• Radde (1993)
• US Dept. Commerce (1966)
• US NPS (1964)
• Zapatka et al. (1995)

The full bibliography for this book is available to download as a pdf file.
Download the bibliography for A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (PDF: 1.2MB)

For a list of words related to parkway, see:

• Roadways and Driving - parkway: broad, usu. landscaped, thoroughfare

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - landskabelig smuk motorvej forbeholdt personbiler, turistvej

Nederlands (Dutch)
brede snelweg door mooi landschap, spoorwegstation met grote parkeerruimte

Français (French)
n. - (US) route bordée de verdure

Deutsch (German)
n. - (für LKW gesperrte) Allee

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ΗΟΑ) λεωφόρος, (Βρετ.) σιδηροδρομικός σταθμός με υπαίθριο πάρκινγκ

Italiano (Italian)
viale

Português (Portuguese)
n. - avenida arborizada (f)

Русский (Russian)
аллея

Español (Spanish)
n. - avenida, alameda

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - parkväg, landsväg med planteringar på båda sidor o mellan körbanorna

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
公园道路, 驾车专用道路

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 林園大道, 林蔭大道

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 공원도로

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 公園道路, パークウェイ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شارع مشجر تقام فيه أشجار الزينه للترفيه العام‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שדרה רחבה, תחנת רכבת פרוורית עם מגרשי חניה גדולים‬

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