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Blonde Girl Wearing Blue Shoes In The Alley
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• In Belgium the equivalent term is gang (Dutch) or impasse (French). Brussels had over 100 gangen/impasses, built to provide pedestrian access to cheap housing in the middle of blocks of buildings. Since 1858, many have now been demolished as part of slum-clearance progammes, but about 70 still exist.
• In India the equivalent term is Gali which were prevalent during Moghul Period (1526 C.E to 1700 C.E.)
• In Singapore, there are many alleys in Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats. Those are often brick roads, have many humps and very few traffic signs and road markings.
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