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    A city block, residential block, urban block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design. In a city with a grid system, the...
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  • Look up city block in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. City block may refer to: City block, an area of a city surrounded by streets City Block (Judge Dredd)...
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    distance, Manhattan distance, or city block distance. The name refers to the island of Manhattan, or generically any planned city with a rectangular grid of...
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  • Look up Block, Blocks, block, blocked, or blocks in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Block or blocked may refer to: Block programming, the result of a...
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  • Mega-City One is still weakened by the events of Block Mania, leaving it a vulnerable target for the Soviet forces of East-Meg One. Almost half the city (400...
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    instructed him to draw a full-page poster of the city. Ezquerra's vision of the city – with massive tower blocks and endless roads suspended vast distances...
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    comes from the form of the party, which often involves closing an entire city block to vehicle traffic or just a single street. Many times, there will be...
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  • and rivers, etc. In cities, a census block may correspond to a city block, but in rural areas where there are fewer roads, blocks may be delimited by...
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  • country, the next level is the city block (街区 gaiku), always followed by the building number (番号 bangō). Building 10 in block 5 would be formally written...
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    insula (lit. 'island'; pl.: insulae) was used in Roman cities to mean either a city block in a city plan (i.e. a building area surrounded by four streets)...
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