Talk:City block

message: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CityBlock good place to start:
1/16 mile =length of street
1/8 mile = length of avenue
except new york
midtown manhattan
1/20 mile = length of street
1/10 to 1/5 mile = length of avenue
:It would help if we had a primary source for this.  The linked page isn't a primary source and in fact doesn't appear to be terribly reliable. 69.140.80.231 02:52, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Chicago is one such city where this is true...every block is a 1/8-mile by 1/8-mile square (except for in the Loop, where they are mostly a bit smaller & vary in size & shape).  That said, I agree that saying it's standard in the U.S. is a rather odd, sweeping generalization.  It looks like this statement was "repaired" by adding the word "some", but it still strikes me as odd & uncited.  -Rhrad 04:52, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 05:54, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: I'm not sure the see-also about Minkowski space is relevant to this article.  It should probably be cut.  Traditionally Minkowski space uses a distance metric that is closer to euclidean than manhattan.  At best it is tangential. Certainly, the article on Minkowski space tells one nothing related to city blocks.76.91.90.112 (talk) 04:10, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minkowski space? 

message: The idea of the “city block” as unit or a distance is surely a uniquely American concept? I grew up in Scotland in a small town which was planned in the 18th/19th C. on a grid, and nobody talked of a block; I then moved to Glasgow, where the city centre is laid out on a Victorian grid, and nobody talked about a block either. It certainly isn’t used in any sense to convey distance as it appears to be in the U.S. anywhere else I’ve been (“a couple of blocks over”/ “he went three blocks…” etc.).
It is used casually in “walking round the block”, but really only in the sense of “going away and coming back again”. Jock123 (talk) 22:26, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Isn’t this just really an American term? 

message: It seems strange that there is no mention of the origins of city blocks nor any usage of the chain measure in the article (22yds) as this and the furlong (10 chains) was the basis of the first deliberately designed city blocks.
DickyP (talk) 15:15, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article without firm foundations 

message: Daniel Cassidy's "Irish etymologies" are pretty much hogwash. See here for a more detailed treatment of why. I think we should remove the Etymology section as a result, since it exists based on his assertions. ClockwerkMao (talk) 19:46, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: Hi, I think the Perimeter block topic is worth to be stand-alone or at least get heavily extended within this context. It has proven to be among the most satisfying and efficient ways to build cities. See e.g. :de:Blockrandbebauung for refs. Cheers, Horst-schlaemma (talk) 15:45, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Perimeter block]] 

message: In the Superblock->History section, the following sentence makes no sense in the context of the paragraph:
"Planners, today, now know that the street discontinuity and the multi-lane roads associated with superblocks have caused the decline of pedestrian and bicycle use everywhere with the "sprawl" pattern."
Yet the thematic statement of the paragraph, and the rest of the paragraph, states the opposite - to organize space in a way that was more "pedestrian-friendly"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.170.161.43 (talk) 08:48, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Context confusion in Superblock