The use of the term may have arisen from an area of housing being built on what had been a country estate as towns and cities … See more

There are several different housing types utilized by housing developers. Each of the different housing types will have their distinctive characteristics, density ranges, number of units, and floors.
• Single … See more

Due to dense population and government control of land use, Hong Kong's most common residential housing form is the highrise housing estate, which may be publicly owned, privately owned, or semi-private. Du… See more

Forms of housing estates may vary in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. During the communist era of Czechoslovakia, a construction of large housing estates (Czech: sídliště, Slovak: sídlisko) was an important p… See more

Forms of housing estates in the United States include tract housing, apartment complexes, and public housing. See more

• Bahria Town
• Danchi (Japan)
• Ghost estate (Ireland)
• Khrushchyovka (Former Soviet Union)… See more