superblock
Pedestrian-priority city zone
A superblock is a large urban area bounded by major streets but with minimal through traffic inside, often featuring pedestrian paths, green space, and limited vehicle access.
The concept redesigns city grids to prioritize residents over cars: Barcelona's superblocks have transformed noisy intersections into community plazas.
In computing, a superblock is a data structure containing critical information about a filesystem's layout and properties.
Removing vehicles from streets
- car-freeProhibiting motor vehicles
- BarcelonaCatalan capital city
- livabilityResidential quality of place
- walkabilityFoot-travel suitability rating
neighborhood · community · plaza · mixed-use · density · transit-oriented · cycling · streetscape
Microsoft's proprietary filesystem
- metadataDescriptive information about content
- journalingRegular personal writing practice
- mountClimb up or steed
- volumeAmount of space filled
allocation · cluster · sector · disk · formatting · checksum · fragmentation · storage
Mind's retention capacity
- bufferProtective intermediate space
- cacheConcealed storage spot
- bitmapPixel-based image format
- extentsDegrees of reach
defragmentation · heap · paging · swap · pool · contiguous
Solid building mixture
- rebarSteel strengthening concrete
- foundationUnderlying support structure
- load-bearingSustaining structural mass
- high-riseMultistory tall building
masonry · seismic · engineering · girder · pillar · truss · cantilever · prefabrication
pedestrianization
Removing vehicles from streets
- car-freeProhibiting motor vehicles
- BarcelonaCatalan capital city
- livabilityResidential quality of place
walkability · neighborhood · community · plaza · mixed-use · density · transit-oriented · cycling · streetscape · mobility
NTFS
Microsoft's proprietary filesystem
- metadataDescriptive information about content
- journalingRegular personal writing practice
- mountClimb up or steed
volume · allocation · cluster · sector · disk · formatting · checksum · fragmentation · storage · directory
memory
Mind's retention capacity
extents · defragmentation · heap · paging · swap · pool · contiguous
concrete
Solid building mixture
- rebarSteel strengthening concrete
- foundationUnderlying support structure
- load-bearingSustaining structural mass
high-rise · masonry · seismic · engineering · girder · pillar · truss · cantilever · prefabrication · modular
- urbanismneighborhood, subway, sidewalk, urban planning, traffic
- filesystemsfilesystem, directories, FAT32, folders, filename
- system softwareoperating system, kernel panic, device driver, device drivers, memory management
- pedestrian spacespedestrian zone, pedestrian mall, sidewalk, footpath, pedestrian plaza
- planned communitiesplanned towns, subdivision, gated community, new towns, master-planned community
- urban planningcity planning, zoning map, master plans, zones, zoning reform