Information about Human Habitat

Ecology (also known as Oekologie, Okology, or Oekology^[1],from Greek: οίκος, oikos, "household"; and λόγος, logos
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ecosystem is a natural unit consisting of all plants, animals and micro-organisms in an area functioning together with all the non-living physical factors of the environment.
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The social environment, also known as the milieu, is the identical or similar social positions and social roles as a whole that influence the individuals of a group.
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Shelter refers to a typically basic structure or building that covers or provides protection, including the following:

Protection from the weather

• House
• Mountain shelter or hut
• Shack

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A house is a building lived in by people. The word "house" may also refer to a building that shelters animals, such as a lemur, especially in a zoo. ^[1]
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A dugout or dug-out, also known as a pithouse, pit-house, earth-house, mud hut, is a shelter for humans or domestic animals based on a hole or depression dug into the ground.
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This article is about artificial caves used as dwellings, especially those in north China called yaodongs, as opposed to natural caves.

Yaodong (窰洞
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A tent is a shelter, consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over or attached to a frame of poles and/or ropes.
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campsite (or campground) is a place used for overnight stay in the out of doors. The term 'campsite' usually means an area where an individual, family, group or military unit might camp.
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Camper can be one of several things:

• A trailer or vehicle accessory used for camping, see recreational vehicle, travel trailer or camper shell.
• A Campervan - a self-powered van converted for camping.
• a person who engages in camping.

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hut is a small, usually crude, shelter, used for dwelling. Its design employs simple construction using locally available materials to build a swift and cost-free structure to isolate [humans] from their environment.

Modern use

Huts are used as temporary shelter by people.
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A hamlet is (usually — see below) a small settlement, too small to be considered a village. The name comes from the diminutive of a Germanic word for an enclosed piece of land or pasture.

United Kingdom

In the UK, a hamlet is traditionally defined ecclesiastically.
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village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a town or city^[1]. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York
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town is a community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. Usually, a "town" is thought of as larger than a village but smaller than a "city".
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city is an urban settlement with a particularly important status which differentiates it from a town.

City is primarily used to designate an urban settlement with a large population. However, city may also indicate a special administrative, legal, or historical status.
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Shanty towns, "marginal" or informal settlements are units of irregular, low-cost dwellings, usually on lands belonging to third parties, and most often located on the periphery of cities.
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Shanty towns, "marginal" or informal settlements are units of irregular, low-cost dwellings, usually on lands belonging to third parties, and most often located on the periphery of cities.
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An intentional community is a planned residential community designed to promote a much higher degree of social interaction than other communities. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political or spiritual vision.
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A Kibbutz (Hebrew: קיבוץ Translit.: kibbutz
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A commune is a kind of intentional community where most resources are shared and there is little or no personal property (as opposed to a community that only shares housing).
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Ecovillages are intended to be socially, economically and ecologically sustainable intentional communities. Most aim for a population of 50-150 individuals because this size is considered to be the maximum social network according to findings from sociology and anthropology (Hill &
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An office is generally a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organisation with specific duties attached to it (see hi officer, office-holder, official); the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the
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prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned and usually deprived of a range of personal freedoms.
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Monastery (plural: Monasteries), a term derived from the Greek word μοναστήριον (monastērion), denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer (e.g.
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neighborhood watch (also called a crime watch or neighborhood crime watch) is a citizens' organization devoted to crime and vandalism prevention within a neighborhood.
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The phrase built environment refers to the manmade surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places.
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Habitat For Humanity International (HFHI) (generally referred to as Habitat for Humanity or simply Habitat) is an international, ecumenical Christian, non-governmental, non-profit organization devoted to building "simple, decent, and affordable" housing.
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India Habitat Centre, located in New Delhi, India, was conceived to be a catalyst relationship between individuals and institutions (e.g. NGO's) working in habitat related areas to increase their effectiveness. The architect who designed the building complex was Joseph Allen Stein.
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Urban, city, or town planning is the discipline of land use planning which explores several aspects of the built and social environments of municipalities and communities.
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A sustainable habitat is an ecosystem that produces food and shelter for people and other organisms, without resource depletion and in such a way that no external waste is produced. Thus the habitat can continue into future time without external infusions of resource.
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