A residential area is a type of land use where the predominant use is residential. In areas that are zoned residential, buildings may include single family housing, multiple family housing, (apartments, duplexes (or similar configurations), condominiums) or mobile homes. 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. Land use is the pattern of construction and activity land is used for. ... In general, zoning is the division of an area into sub-areas, called zones. ... Borj-e Sefid apartments in Tehran, Iran An apartment (or flat in Britain and other Commonwealth countries) is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building. ... Duplex, meaning double or twofold, may refer to: Duplex, a telecommunications term referring to two-way simultaneous transmission and reception A duplex is the U.S. name for a particular type of housing. ... This article refers to a form of housing. ... A modern double-wide manufactured home Manufactured hmes (or mobile homes) are housing units built in factories, rather than on site, and then taken to the place where they will be occupied, usually by being carried by tractor-trailers over public highways. ...

In certain situations residential areas may consist of quite large tracts of land which have no services whatever requiring a trip to town in order to fulfill basic needs. Because of the large distances involved most of these numerous trips involve using a motor vehicle. In the case of a land development the pattern of development is set forth in the restrictive covenants contained in the deeds to the properties in the development. This creates a situation which is not easily changed as the agreement of all property owners (many of whom may not live in the area) must be obtained to effect a change. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... A restrictive 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. ... A deed is a legal instrument used to grant a right. ...