city block

Summary

city block ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (173 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• city block is a type of human settlement^[2].
• city block is a type of architectural structure^[3].
• city block's Commons category is recorded as City blocks^[4].
• city block's topic's main category is recorded as Category:City blocks^[5].
• city block's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as place=city_block^[6].
• city block's described by source is recorded as National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan^[7].
• city block's different from is recorded as quarter^[8].
• city block's different from is recorded as neighborhood^[9].
• city block's different from is recorded as housing estate^[10].
• city block's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[11].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include human settlement^[2] and architectural structure^[3].

Influence

Things named for city block include Blockleiter^[12], a position^[13], in Nazi Germany^[14].

Why It Matters

city block ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (173 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[15] It is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[16]

Entities named for it include Blockleiter^[12], a position^[13], in Nazi Germany^[14].