building block

Summary: A building block is a collection of adjacent plots, surrounded by infrastructure, located in residential area. It is an urban figure, a building block of the city that largely determines the fabric. The whole or most of a building block consists of dwellings or functions that are reconcilable with dwellings; or it possesses at least the morphological properties (size, shape, access possibilities...) to realise dwellings on it. The basic model of the building block is a closed building block. The cell wall, the whole of the buildings along the street, is the border between the public space and the inner area. This inner area is divided into gardens. If there is another function in addition to the gardens, such as a shed, this inner area also has a pit. Purpose: visualisation of the building blocks in support of the building blocks policy Creation: The layer is based on 2020 data and was created by the province of West Flanders .