Although universal enough to become an international hit, West End Girls is rooted in specific streets.
That holds equally true when buying advertising alongside the right TV shows, and when leafleting selected homes in specific streets.
The experiment will test whether the city can successfully reduce traffic speeds by concentrating on a broad part of a borough, rather than taking its usual piecemeal approach along specific streets.
While the report, which examined more than 7,000 pedestrian accidents, did not rank specific streets, focusing instead on dangerous intersections, it did describe the most dangerous type of street: "Arterial streets (typically wide signalized streets that carry high volumes of traffic) account for about 60 percent of pedestrian fatalities but only 15 percent of the total road network".
It lets operators dim or brighten lighting in specific streets or areas to enhance the mood on a festival evening, boost the lighting in a shopping district staying open late or in a park if, say, the police are responding to a crime report.
San Francisco is also a tricky city, with a mostly calm climate, though the weather can change in very specific streets and neighborhoods.
As the preliminary results of the pilot study in Bressanone show, only in the last 8 years have a relevant number of migrants from different countries started up their own business, and this in specific streets of the city.
Lovely creates what it calls a "renter's resume" letting users contact landlords directly from the site, offering real-time inventory availability, and giving users the option to create email alerts based on specific parameters and locations, including specific streets.
A distributed city, in comparison, is a city where the streets have a more similar network role, and where the dependency on specific streets for global connectivity is less in favor of a larger portion of the network operating as global connectors to an equal extent (Hillier et al. 2012).
They have a distinct geographic focal point: In other words, locals and tourists can point it out on a map, usually by identifying one of two specific streets.
