What’s on the Streets and Blocks poster
A 4-row table: City · Block · Effect.
Block dimensions in some well studied cities.
- Barcelona Eixample — 113 m square — Even, chamfered corners
- Manhattan — 61 by 244 m — Strong avenues, long walk
- Portland, Oregon — 61 m square — Very walkable, many corners
- Savannah — Ward with square — Public space every block
Small blocks give more route choice, more corners and more frontage. Large blocks are cheaper to build and duller to walk.
Questions about the Streets and Blocks poster
- What’s on the Streets and Blocks poster?
- A 4-row table: City · Block · Effect. Block dimensions in some well studied cities. Barcelona Eixample — 113 m square — Even, chamfered corners; Manhattan — 61 by 244 m — Strong avenues, long walk; Portland, Oregon — 61 m square — Very walkable, many corners; Savannah — Ward with square — Public space every block. Small blocks give more route choice, more corners and more frontage. Large blocks are cheaper to build and duller to walk.
- Who is the Streets and Blocks poster for?
- Streets and Blocks belongs to the Architecture section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning urban design can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Streets and Blocks poster?
- Use it in any masterplan. Fix the block before the buildings, not the other way around. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Streets and Blocks belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Streets and Blocks?
- Active Frontage, Garden City and Housing Typologies sit alongside Streets and Blocks in the Architecture section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Active FrontageGarden CityHousing Typologies
- Is the Streets and Blocks poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Streets and Blocks downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Architecture section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Streets and Blocks poster print at?
- Streets and Blocks is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Streets and Blocks loses nothing.Printing guide
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