Human habitat
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Human habitats are any habitats intended for humans. These can include human residences, places of work and recreation. They can range in scale from individual houses to whole cities.
The term habitat comes from ecology, and includes many interrelated features, especially the immediate physical environment, the urban environment or the social environment.
Specific human habitats include:
- Dwellings and shelters
- houses, dugouts, yaodongs, tents, camps, campers, huts.
- Settlements
- hamlets, villages, towns, cities, squatter camps, shanty towns.
- Intentional communities
- Kibbutzim, commune, ecovillages.
- Other
- Offices, Prisons, Monasteries
See also
- built environment
- town planning
- Sustainable habitat
- Habitat for Humanity International a charity related to housing.
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