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Hull House, Chicago. Settlement and community houses in the United States were a vital part of the settlement movement, a progressive social movement that began in the mid-19th century in London with the intention of improving the quality of life in poor urban areas through education initiatives, food and shelter provisions, and assimilation and naturalization assistance.
Mother-in-law apartment: small apartment either at the back, in the basement, or on an upper level subdivision of the main house, usually with a separate entrance (also known as a "Granny flat" in the UK, Australia New Zealand and South Africa). If it is a separate structure from the main house, it is called a 'granny cottage' or a 'doddy house'.
Doors Open Days (also known as Open House or Open Days in some communities) provide free access to buildings not normally open to the public. The first Doors Open Day took place in France in 1984, [1] [clarification needed] and the concept has spread to other places in Europe (see European Heritage Days), North America, [2] Australia and elsewhere.
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Apartment complex with retail and medical offices on ground floor, Kirkland, Washington Ballston Quarter in Arlington, Virginia, part of the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, is transit-oriented, mixed-use and densified, giving a "downtown" feel in an edge city. Traditional mixed-use development pattern in a city center: Bitola, North ...
A residential cluster development, or open space development, is the grouping of residential properties on a development site to use the extra land as open space, recreation or agriculture. It is increasingly becoming popular in subdivision development because it allows the developer to spend much less on land and obtain much the same price per ...
A lower-rise apartment building on the left side of the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, juxtaposed next to a skyscraper apartment building. An apartment (American English, Canadian English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English) [a], or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building ...
Co-living [1] is a residential community living model that accommodates three or more biologically unrelated people living in the same dwelling unit. [2] Generally co-living is a type of intentional community that provides shared housing for people with similar values or intentions. [3]