Pavement

Pavement(s) or paving may refer to:

Surfacing

• Road surface, the durable surfacing of roads and walkways
• Sidewalk, a walkway along the side of a road, called a pavement in British English
• Asphalt concrete, a common form of road surface
• Cool pavement, pavement that delivers higher solar reflectance than conventional dark pavement
• Crazy paving, a means of hard-surfacing used outdoors
• Nicolson pavement, a road surface material consisting of wooden blocks
• Pavers (flooring), an outdoor floor done in blocks
• Permeable paving, paving that enables stormwater to flow through it or between gaps
• Portuguese pavement, the traditional paving used in most pedestrian areas in Portugal
• Resin-bound paving, a mixture of aggregate stones and resin used to pave footpaths, driveways, etc.
• Tactile paving, textured ground surface indicators to assist vision-impaired pedestrians
• Whitetopping, the covering of an existing asphalt pavement with a layer of Portland cement concrete

Geology

• Desert pavement, a desert ground surface covered with closely packed rock fragments
• Glacial striation or glacial pavement, a rock surface scoured and polished by glacial action
• Limestone pavement, a naturally occurring landform that resembles an artificial pavement
• Tessellated pavement, a rare sedimentary rock formation that occurs on some ocean shores

Geography

• Pavement (York), a street in York, England
• Finsbury Pavement, a street in London, England
• High Pavement, a street in Nottingham, England
• Low Pavement, a street in Nottingham, England; see 10, Low Pavement

Arts and entertainment

• Pavement (band), an indie rock band from Stockton, California, US
  • Pavements (film), a 2024 film about the band
• Pavement (magazine), a youth culture magazine
• "Pavement" (Space Ghost Coast to Coast), an episode of the American animated TV series Space Ghost Coast to Coast

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Pavement
• All pages with titles containing Pavement
• Pave (disambiguation)
• Pavement engineering, branch of civil engineering that uses engineering techniques to design and maintain flexible (asphalt) and rigid (concrete) pavements