Anatomy Of US Condominiums System:Management Model&Design Methodology

Condominium is the most common form of multi-family residential homeowner-ship in US. The completeness of facilities and convenience of cleaning-up makes itpopular in the US real estate market. Today， when it comes to legislation， man-agement and planning&design，condominiums are all well-developed. In this paper，the US condominiums are analyzed from the aspects of historical evolution， man-agement， planning&design， as a reference for China real estate’s design&planningand management systems.Firstly，along with changing of the era and marketplace， the US’s multi-familyresidential form has experienced a shift from townhouse， low-rent apartments， earlydays，to co-apartments，condominium recently. This paper goes through the evolutionof multi-family house in different periods and different social contexts， and the gen-eration and development of condominiums during it. Then， in the operational man-agement of condominiums aspect， this paper takes the “Uniform condominium Act” asthe main basis， and analyzes the property rights division of condominium and high-lights the owners association system which is the core of condominium’s autonomousmanagement system， and systematically dissert the US condominium property rightssystem， management system. In the aspects of planning&design， this paper sum-marizes the features of condominium from the angle of site selection， general layout，cell layout&size， appearance， supplementing with specific examples， and in orderto contribute to the residential planning&design in China.