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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 block is the smallest group of buildings that is surrounded by streets. City blocks are the space for buildings within the street pattern of a city, and form the basic unit of a city's urban ...
Building blocks (toy) The Lego system is the most widely used clamp building block system in the world. Building blocks (also construction blocks) are modular construction parts, usually made of plastic, which can be assembled in a form-fit manner. The basic components are usually cuboid-shaped, cylindrically studded at the top in a grid ...
Toy block. A set of blocks. Toy blocks (also building bricks, building blocks, or simply blocks) are wooden, plastic, or foam pieces of various shapes (cube, cylinder, arch etc.) and colors that are used as construction toys. Sometimes, toy blocks depict letters of the alphabet.
Building block or building blocks may refer to: Toy blocks. Building blocks (toy) Concrete masonry unit. Building block (chemistry) Components that are part of a larger system. Building block model, a form of public utility regulation that is common in Australia. Category: Disambiguation pages.
A notable exception is the building of the National Theatre of Bucharest, Romania, which was damaged by bombing in August 1944. Though part of the building was still standing, after taking complete power in 1947, the communist authorities decided to tear down the remains of the building. In the late 1940s, the USSR developed a new type of high ...
Hydrophobic sand. School Volunteer Program ACT. Skyline (construction set) Snap Circuits. Spacewarp (toy) Stickle Bricks. Super City (toy)
In 1944, Page applied "Improvement to Toy Building Blocks" as an addition to the previous patent, in which he describes a building system based on rectangular hollow blocks with 2X4 studs on top enabling the construction of walls with staggered rows and window openings. The addition was granted in 1947 as British Patent Nº 587,206.
Superblock (University of Minnesota), a section of the Health area in the East Bank of the Minneapolis campus, US. Superblock, a former large area formed after urban renewal in the cityscape of Huntington, West Virginia, US. The Barcelona superblocks, a way to encourage walking, wheeling and bus use over private cars for short journeys.