neighborhood block - RichardAlexanderGreen/WorldGovGame GitHub Wiki

Generally a neighborhood block is assumed to have about 8 households and about 16 adults. An urban block may be an enclave of joined houses or even a single floor of an apartment building. It is a convenient unit for administrative purposes and it is assumed to administer some common area or infrastructure.

• In the case of an apartment floor, there would at least be a hallway in common.
• In the case of joined houses, there may be a common courtyard, street-front, or parking area.

Architecture
In our idealized architecture, a suburban block has a tick-tack-toe layout with a common area in the center square and eight detached houses on the eight periphery squares. Each of these suburban blocks is delimited by streets. Eight such blocks face a park square on one of their edges to form a neighborhood.

Our idealized urban lot has a variant of the tick-tack-toe layout with four duplexes bordering a common courtyard in a cross pattern. The urban neighborhood has a tick-tack-toe layout with eight of those cross-pattern lots on the periphery and a shared but vacant central lot.

Of course, higher density blocks are certainly seen. Many of the well designed and nicely landscaped apartment buildings in my town have 12 apartments per building and still allow each apartment two exterior walls for natural light. With 4 such building bordering a common square, we would have a block with something like 48 households, 96 adults, and 24 children.