Residential area

Residential Area

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Residential area

Within a urban area there is a tendency for land uses to aggregate

Aggregate

An aggregate is a collection of items that are gathered together to form a total quantity. It may refer also to:* Aggregate , in materials science, a component of a composite material used to resist compressive stress....
. A residential area is a land use

Land use

Land use is the human modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as fields, pastures, and settlements. The major effect of land use on land cover since 1750 has been deforestation of temperate regions....
in which the predominant use is housing.

Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single family housing, multiple family housing such as (apartment
Apartment

An apartment is a self-contained House unit that occupies only part of a Apartment building. Apartments may be owned or rented .A common alternative term for apartment is flat....
s, duplex
Duplex

Duplex, meaning double or twofold, commonly refers to:* Duplex , a two-unit apartment building or condominium* Duplex , a telecommunications systems where signal can flow in both directions between connected parties; half-duplex flows in one direction at a time, full-duplex flows in both directions at the same time...
es, townhomes (or similar configurations), condominiums) or mobile home
Mobile home

Mobile homes or static caravans are prefabrication homes built in factories, rather than on site, and then taken to the place where they will be occupied....
s.

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Within a urban area there is a tendency for land uses to aggregate
Aggregate

An aggregate is a collection of items that are gathered together to form a total quantity. It may refer also to:* Aggregate , in materials science, a component of a composite material used to resist compressive stress....
. A residential area is a land use
Land use

Land use is the human modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as fields, pastures, and settlements. The major effect of land use on land cover since 1750 has been deforestation of temperate regions....
in which the predominant use is housing.

Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single family housing, multiple family housing such as (apartment
Apartment

An apartment is a self-contained House unit that occupies only part of a Apartment building. Apartments may be owned or rented .A common alternative term for apartment is flat....
s, duplex
Duplex

Duplex, meaning double or twofold, commonly refers to:* Duplex , a two-unit apartment building or condominium* Duplex , a telecommunications systems where signal can flow in both directions between connected parties; half-duplex flows in one direction at a time, full-duplex flows in both directions at the same time...
es, townhomes (or similar configurations), condominiums) or mobile home
Mobile home

Mobile homes or static caravans are prefabrication homes built in factories, rather than on site, and then taken to the place where they will be occupied....
s. Zoning for residential use may permit some services or work opportunities or may totally exclude business and industry. It may permit high density land use or only permit low density uses. Residential zoning usually includes a smaller FAR (floor to area ratio) than business, commercial or industrial/manufacturing zoning.The area may also be large or small.

In certain residential areas, largely rural
Rural

Rural areas are large and isolated areas of a country, often with low populations. Today, 75 percent of the United States' inhabitants live in suburban and urban areas, but cities occupy only 2 percent of the country....
, quite large tracts of land may exist which have no services whatsoever. Because a large distance must be traveled to access the nearest services, most journeys involve using a motor vehicle or some other form of transport. This need has resulted in Residential land development
Land development

Land development refers to altering the landscape in any number of ways such as:* changing landforms from a natural or semi-natural state for a purpose such as agriculture or housing...
usually existing or planned infrastructure such as rail and road. The pattern of development is usually set forth in the restrictive covenant
Restrictive covenant

A real covenant is a legal obligation imposed in a deed by the seller upon the buyer of real estate to do or not to do something. Such restrictions frequently "run with the land" and are enforceable on subsequent buyers of the property....
s contained in the deed
Deed

A deed is a legal instrument used to grant a right. Deeds are part of the broader category of documents under seal. Deeds can be described as contract-like, as they require the mutual agreement of more than one person....
s to the properties in the development, but may also result from or be reinforced by zoning
Zoning

Zoning is a device of land use regulation used by local governments in most developed countries . The word is derived from the practice of designating permitted uses of land based on mapped zones which separate one set of land uses from another....
. Restrictive covenants are not easily changed as the agreement of all property owners (many of whom may not live in the area) may need to be obtained to effect a change. The area may also be large or small.

Residential Differentiation:
These are some of the various zones under which Residential Areas fall.

inner city residential
inner mixed zone
established residential
new development
urban-rural rringe
rural residential
sub-regional centers