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apartment hotel

a hotel that offers a high level of service and beautifully decorated public areas aimed at both passers-by and long-term residents

chateauscraper

very luxurious apartment building

cityscraper

a city-enhancing skyscraper

commieblock

serial high-rise public housing, usually a tall concrete building with identical buildings around it built in a cluster

condo craze

the rapid and massive development of residential skyscrapers

condominiumization

splitting an older building into multiple units

french flat

the name given to early apartment building in the United States

home-rise

a general term for tall residential buildings

insula

an apartment block in ancient Rome

khrushchyovka

a term used by Russians to refer to the inexpensive three-, four-, or five-story apartment building constructed of concrete panels

myscraper

a privately-owned skyscraper

residential hotel

an alternative term for an apartment hotel

resiscraper

a residential skyscraper

slumscraper

a vertical slum

squatscraper

a skyscraper taken over by squatters