What is "street smart"

a. (alternative spelling of street-smart English)

adj. having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment [syn: streetwise, with-it]

Street Smart may refer to:

• Street Smart (arcade game), a 1989 arcade game by SNK
• Street Smart (film), a 1987 film with Christopher Reeve and Morgan Freeman
• Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads, a book about private highways
• Common sense, a basic understanding of the mechanisms of the world

Street Smart is a 1987 American thriller-drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Christopher Reeve, Morgan Freeman and Kathy Baker. It was shot in New York City and Montreal, Quebec.

is a 1989 beat 'em up arcade game developed and published by SNK. The game's objective is to win money, girls and glory on the streets. It is notorious for its level of difficulty, requiring a great deal of brawling before the player's opponents go down. It is also notable by North Americans for being one of the earliest arcade games to show the anti-drug slogan, " Winners Don't Use Drugs".

Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads is a book about private highways. It covers many aspects of these roads, including the asserted need to protect personal freedom by reducing government control of the roadways; why government highways have failed; how roads can be built without exercising eminent domain authority; how vehicle and driver licensure by insurers can improve road safety; and so on. The writers of the book are Mary E. Peters, Gabriel Roth, John Semmens, Bruce L. Benson, David Levinson, Gopinath Menon, Herbert Mohring, Olegario Villoria, Edward Sullivan, Kenneth Button, Daniel Klein, John Majewski, Fred Foldvary, Christina Malmberg Calvo, Sven Ivarsson, Gunter Zietlow, Jim McLay, Neil Roden, Ian Heggie, Robert W. Poole, Jr., Kenneth Orski, and Peter Samuel.