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
A more extensive list can be found in Category:Human habitats.
See also
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