# Pavement

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**Pavement**(**s**) or **paving** may refer to:

## Surfacing

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

## Geology

- [Desert pavement](/source/Desert_pavement), a desert ground surface covered with closely packed rock fragments
- [Glacial striation](/source/Glacial_striation) or glacial pavement, a rock surface scoured and polished by glacial action
- [Limestone pavement](/source/Limestone_pavement), a naturally occurring landform that resembles an artificial pavement
- [Tessellated pavement](/source/Tessellated_pavement), a rare sedimentary rock formation that occurs on some ocean shores

## Geography

- [Pavement (York)](/source/Pavement_(York)), a street in York, England
- [Finsbury Pavement](/source/Finsbury_Pavement), a street in London, England
- [High Pavement](/source/High_Pavement), a street in Nottingham, England
- Low Pavement, a street in Nottingham, England; see [10, Low Pavement](/source/10,_Low_Pavement)

## Arts and entertainment

- [Pavement (band)](/source/Pavement_(band)), an indie rock band from Stockton, California, US - [*Pavements* (film)](/source/Pavements_(film)), a 2024 film about the band
- [*Pavement* (magazine)](/source/Pavement_(magazine)), a youth culture magazine
- ["Pavement" (*Space Ghost Coast to Coast*)](/source/Pavement_(Space_Ghost_Coast_to_Coast)), an episode of the American animated TV series *Space Ghost Coast to Coast* featuring the band

## See also

- [Pave (disambiguation)](/source/Pave_(disambiguation))
- [Pavement engineering](/source/Pavement_engineering), branch of civil engineering that uses engineering techniques to design and maintain flexible (asphalt) and rigid (concrete) pavements

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