The concept of “street length continuity” appears in Western urban design (Jacobs, 1961; Gehl, 2010) but rarely in Czech historiography. A gap exists: no typology of unbroken named streets in Czechia beyond individual case studies.
The Czech Republic possesses a dense network of medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and modern streets. However, a specific type — the full length street (Czech: plnohodnotná ulice or celodélková ulice ) — has received little systematic study. These are streets that, from one named end to the other, maintain a single name, continuous pavement, and uninterrupted building frontage or right-of-way for a substantial distance (operationalised here as ≥1.5 km). full length czech streets
20 fragmented streets (same cities, same functional class, but broken into 2–4 named segments). The concept of “street length continuity” appears in