superblock

English

Etymology

super- +‎ block

Noun

superblock (plural superblocks)

  1. (architecture, urban planning) A very large block of buildings.
    • 2008 March 21, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “What Will Be Left of Gehry’s Vision for Brooklyn?”, in New York Times‎:
      All are blots on the urban environment, as blandly homogenous in their own way as the Modernist superblocks they were intended to improve on.
    • 2009 February 20, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “Boxy to Bold: A Concert Hall Busts Out”, in New York Times‎:
      Conceived as part of a 1950s-era slum-clearance program, the immense superblock required the demolition of an entire neighborhood of dilapidated tenements and brownstones.
    • 2022 March 8, Sarah DeWeerdt, “Barcelona-style “superblocks” could make a surprising number of cities greener and less car-centric”, in Anthropocene Magazine‎:
      Superblocks are a relatively new urban planning concept that has been pioneered in Barcelona, Spain. The basic idea is to identify a 3 x 3 grid of 9 city blocks and restrict vehicle traffic to the streets on the perimeter. The interior streets then become available for walking, biking, and expanded green space.
  2. (computing) A segment of metadata describing the file system on a block device.

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