Housing estate

A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex, housing development, <a href="/facts/Subdivision_(land)/NM9uTq8u">subdivision</a> or community) is a group of <a href="/facts/Home/6E2KNpSe">homes</a> and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country.
Popular throughout the <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a> and the <a href="/facts/United_Kingdom/kuPAILt2">United Kingdom</a>, they often consist of <a href="/facts/Single-family_detached_home/c3Hlc0Ip">single family detached</a>, <a href="/facts/Semi-detached/qW0wHEVo">semi-detached</a> ("duplex") or <a href="/facts/Terraced_house/DT8MaWwr">terraced</a> homes, with separate ownership of each <a href="/facts/Dwelling_unit/aIJ3gB2o">dwelling unit</a>. Building density depends on local planning norms.
In major Asian cities, such as <a href="/facts/Hong_Kong/4nAf3mqQ">Hong Kong</a>, <a href="/facts/Kuala_Lumpur/2dCzRWjL">Kuala Lumpur</a>, <a href="/facts/Shanghai/nYyuBo2S">Shanghai</a>, <a href="/facts/Shenzhen/B8rnXRf8">Shenzhen</a>, <a href="/facts/Singapore/CQDkhUvD">Singapore</a>, <a href="/facts/Seoul/H0Xloz9o">Seoul</a>, <a href="/facts/Taipei/uxB89v54">Taipei</a>, and <a href="/facts/Tokyo/GTvuw4ct">Tokyo</a>, an estate may range from detached houses to high-density <a href="/facts/Tower_block/dfTrBY0s">tower blocks</a> with or without commercial facilities; in Europe and America, these may take the form of town housing, high-rise housing projects, or the older-style rows of <a href="/facts/Terraced_house/DT8MaWwr">terraced houses</a> associated with the <a href="/facts/Industrial_Revolution/B6E3Fasm">Industrial Revolution</a>, detached or <a href="/facts/Semi-detached/qW0wHEVo">semi-detached</a> houses with small plots of land around them forming gardens, and are frequently without commercial facilities and such.
In <a href="/facts/Central_and_Eastern_Europe/JcsTveqo">Central and Eastern Europe</a>, living in housing estates is a common way of living. Most of these housing estates originated during the <a href="/facts/Communist_era/Cg0kk4dG">communist era</a> because the construction of large housing estates was an important part of building plans in communist countries in Europe. They can be located in <a href="/facts/Suburb/8Nv6KVJr">suburban</a> and <a href="/facts/Urban_area/fu9v8h5P">urban areas</a>.
Accordingly, a housing estate is usually built by a single contractor, with only a few styles of <a href="/facts/House/fdDCUhyD">house</a> or <a href="/facts/Building/edSjKXje">building</a> design, so they tend to be uniform in appearance.
A housing development is "often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management." In the <a href="/facts/United_Kingdom/kuPAILt2">United Kingdom</a>, the term is quite broad and can include anything from <a href="/facts/High-rise_building/dfTrBY0s">high-rise</a> government-subsidised housing right through to more upmarket, developer-led <a href="/facts/Suburb/8Nv6KVJr">suburban</a> <a href="/facts/Tract_housing/JNEW9FLX">tract housing</a>. Such estates are usually designed to minimise through-traffic flows and provide recreational space in the form of parks and greens.

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