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- noun Plural form of
superblock .
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Examples
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The heart of the legal fight had to do with provisions in the specific plan that addressed the desired overall density of Desert Ridge, and how individual parcels, called superblocks, could be adjusted to reach that outcome.
azcentral.com | news 2010
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The school's latest plans, which include building two so-called "superblocks" in the Washington Square Park neighborhood and possibly establishing a remote academic center on Governors Island, drew a glut of opposition from groups including the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, the East Village Community Coalition and the Washington Square Village Tenants Association, which all attended the open house.
The Real Deal New York - Latest News Amy Tennery 2010
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Bellevue's huge "superblocks" make it possible for a four-car train to stop next to City Hall without blocking an intersection.
The Seattle Times 2009
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Bellevue's huge "superblocks" make it possible for a four-car train to stop next to City Hall without blocking an intersection.
The Seattle Times 2009
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"China has been able to succeed in this incredible development process by developing what we call 'superblocks'.
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More than 2,000 amendments followed, introducing such notions as superblocks in the 1940s—to limit density by spacing skyscrapers widely apart.
Zoning Laws Grow Up Julie V. Iovine 2012
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As in Philadelphia, the first designs for Battery Park City were ambitious megastructures on superblocks, and they suffered the same fate.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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No more superblocks, no more high-rise apartment buildings most of the social housing will be in town houses or low-rise walk-ups, no more islands of concentrated poverty.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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No superblocks, no freestanding towers surrounded by parks, no windswept plazas, no vertical separation of cars and pedestrians, no indoor shopping malls.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Instead of creating superblocks and pedestrian malls, they laid out a more or less conventional grid of streets and sidewalks, with relatively small blocks subdivided into building lots.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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