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  2. City block - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Concrete block - Wikipedia

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    A pallet of "8-inch" concrete blocks An interior wall of painted concrete blocks Concrete masonry blocks A building constructed with concrete masonry blocks. A concrete block, also known as a cinder block in North American English, breeze block in British English, or concrete masonry unit (CMU), or by various other terms, is a standard-size rectangular block used in building construction.

  4. The Cerdá Plan - Wikipedia

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    The dimensions of the blocks are given by the aforementioned distances between the longitudinal axes of the streets and the same width of these roads, so that by establishing a standard width of 20 meters, the blocks are formed by quadrilaterals of 113.3 meters, their vertices truncated in the form of a chamfer of 15 meters, which gives a block ...

  5. Section (United States land surveying) - Wikipedia

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    In U.S. land surveying under the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a section is an area nominally one square mile (2.6 square kilometers), containing 640 acres (260 hectares), with 36 sections making up one survey township on a rectangular grid. [1]

  6. List of city squares by size - Wikipedia

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    City square City Country Area Dimensions, notes Year Photo Ref (m 2) [1] (ft 2) ; Xinghai Square: Dalian China 1,760,000 18,900,000: Commemorates the centenary of the founding of the city

  7. List of largest buildings - Wikipedia

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    [33] [34] "home to several hotels, a skating rink, a university and a water park with its artificial beach measuring 5,000 square meters" [35] Dubai International Airport Terminal 3 United Arab Emirates: Dubai: 1,713,000 m 2 (18,440,000 sq ft) Three buildings connected by tunnels. [36] "The baggage handling system used in the terminal is the ...

  8. Sett (paving) - Wikipedia

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    A sett, also known as a block or Belgian block, [1] is a broadly rectangular quarried stone used in paving roads and walkways. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Formerly in widespread use, particularly on steeper streets because setts provided horses' hooves with better grip than a smooth surface, they are now encountered more usually as decorative stone paving in ...

  9. XM291 - Wikipedia

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    It can be used in two configurations, one in 140 mm and one in 120 mm electrothermal-chemical technology (ETC). [1] The XM291 was the first cannon to incorporate a system that counteracted the vibrations in the barrel caused by the tank moving over terrain, using the dynamically tuned shroud (DTS).