Alley may be paved, or unpaved, and a blind alley is a cul-de-sac. Modern urban developments may also provide a service road to allow for waste collection, or rear access for fire engines and parking. Because of geography, steps (stairs) are the predominant form of alley in hilly cities and towns. This includes Quebec City in Canada and in the United States Pittsburgh (see Steps of Pittsburgh), Cincinnati (see Steps of Cincinnati), Minneapolis, Seattle, and San Francisco as well as Hong Kong, Genoa and Rome. Some alleys are roofed because they are within buildings, such as the traboules of Lyon, or
Give me liberty, or give me death! or freedom") but the context is different, since in this aria with "Freedom" isn't meant political freedom: Oronta is asking Amor (personification of love) to either free her from love's bonds or to kill her, since, love's pains are too hard for her to suffer. This is explained in the first stanza (translated: Give me death or freedom / Oh blind Amor, that so much sufferings, / So much troubles, so much chains / the heart can't bear). The phrase appears in other nationalist contexts. The national anthem of Uruguay, "Orientales, la Patria o la Tumba", contains the line "¡Libertad