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    A city block, residential block, urban block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design. A city block is the smallest group...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    offices of the Los Angeles City Council. It is located in the Civic Center district of downtown Los Angeles in the city block bounded by Main, Temple, First...
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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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  • included before the street name, and the neighborhood, city block, and building number (within the city block) are not included. Just as in the East Asian system...
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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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  • the minimal unit of data for block ciphers. Block (telecommunications) Block size (mathematics) The size of a city block This disambiguation page lists...
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    Blockhouse (redirect from Block-house)
    the Chinese Communist Party. Battery tower Blockhouse No. 1, New York City Block House (Delaware) British hardened field defences of World War II - Pillbox...
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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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    York City designated landmark. In addition, the block on which Fraunces Tavern is located is a National Historic Landmark District and a New York City designated...
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    engineer William LeMessurier. The Citigroup Center takes up much of a city block bounded clockwise from the west by Lexington Avenue, 54th Street, Third...
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    Blockleiter (Block Warden), where block refers to city block, was from 1933 the title of a lower Nazi Party political rank responsible for the political...
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  • especially in the Midwest. A block club typically focuses on one or both sides of a city block on a single street, but some block clubs extend over larger...
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    Grid plan (redirect from City grid)
    built with blocks divided by a grid of straight streets, running north–south and east–west. Each block was subdivided by small lanes. The cities and monasteries...
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    targeted city initiatives, and homelessness advocacy make it one of the most notable districts in Los Angeles. Covering fifty city blocks immediately...
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    usage is that the word manzana means both "apple" and "city block" in Spanish. It was so named ("block of discord") because it features four different interpretations...
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    for the city and naturalistically landscaped by Samuel Parsons Jr. as DeWitt Clinton Park. In 1911, New York Hospital bought a full city block largely...
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    Basilica of Saint Mary is a Roman Catholic minor basilica located on its own city block along Hennepin Avenue between 16th and 17th Streets in downtown Minneapolis...
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  • Block Associations and Neighborhood Associations in New York City are non-profit organizations. A block party requires that an applicant must have a block...
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  • word meaning "apple" or "city block", may refer to: Manzana (album), a 2004 album by Los Prisioneros Manzana (unit), a city block Manzana, San Jose, a barangay...
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  • The Block may refer to: The Block (Baltimore), an adult entertainment area The Block (Philippines), an annex building in SM City North EDSA located in...
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    occupies the entire city block bounded by Eighth Avenue, Ninth Avenue, 49th Street, and 50th Street and is built on the site of New York City's third Madison...
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  • town, an entire city block. At the time Auckland had a population of about 6,300. 1858 – 1858 Christiania fire severely damaged the city. 1862 – Troy, New...
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    Outlets at Orange (former names The Block at Orange and The City Shopping Center) is an open-air outlet mall in the city of Orange, California in northern...
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    located in the Pearl District on the edge of downtown and occupies a full city block between NW 10th and 11th Avenues and between W. Burnside and NW Couch...
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