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A concourse is a place where pathways or roads meet, such as in a hotel, a convention center, a railway station, an airport terminal, a hall, or other space.

Contents 1 Examples 2 Gallery 2.1 Outdoor concourses 2.2 Public transport concourses 2.3 Car park concourses 3 Contemporary usage 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Examples

Examples of concourses include:

• Meeting halls
• Universities
• Railway stations
• conference centers
• Hotels
• Airport terminals
• Shopping malls or portions of shopping malls which are often called "shopping concourses"
• Sports arenas and stadiums

[edit] Gallery

[edit] Outdoor concourses

Earnley Concourse, West Sussex, 2009[1]

Asda supermarket concourse, Llandudno, 2007

Concourse outside City Hall, London.

Concourse outside Wembley Arena, 2008

[edit] Public transport concourses

Leeds City bus station concourse, 2007	Leeds railway station concourse, 2009	Liverpool Street concourse, 2009	London Paddington station concourse, The Lawn, 2009
St Pancras concourse, 2009	Waterloo International railway station concourse, 2009

[edit] Car park concourses

Braehead car park concourse, 2008

[edit] Contemporary usage

More recently, "concourse" is often used to refer to a situation where people come together in online presence, even if they don't come together in real physical life. An example of such an online community is the IEEE Student Concourse, as well as various online shopping concourses.

[edit] See also

• Concourse on High (Bahá'í Faith)
• Concourse at Landmark Center

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• IEEE Student Concourse
• Eaton's shopping concourse (government file photo)

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