Massive Apartments/ Estates / Public Housing.
Look at Halle-Neustadt (town hall in the district of Germany) from a point high-rise building. 
St. James Town apartments in Downtown Toronto. These massive residential towers were built in the 1960s & approximately 17,000 people live in the neighborhood's apartment towers, which makes it Canada's most densely populated community. St. James Town is the largest high-rise housing project community in Canada & it consists of 19 or more high-rise buildings (14 to 32 stories).
Flats in public housing estates in Singapore:
Top view of Bukit Batok, Singapore. Bukit Batok New Town is a new town located in western Singapore.
A typical Housing and Development Board Estate, Singapore. 
Bedok New Town (eastern part of Singapore) is the fifth (HDB) new town & there are about 58,000 units of flats been built. 
Punggol New Town is within the North-East Region of Singapore.
Sengkang New Town is a relatively young satellite residential town in Singapore. And by the end of March 2006, it had 384 HDB apartment blocks with 39,982 units in Sengkang New Town, which comprises of 16,017 four-roomers, 19,477 five-roomers & 4,488 executive flats.
Yishun New Town is a housing estate in the north of Singapore.
Bukit Merah (Singapore).
The 'Million Program' an ambitious housing program implemented in Sweden with an aim to build a million new dwellings in a 10-year period (therefore the project's name). By the end of this program, about 1,006,000 new dwellings were built, which changed the face of Sweden forever:
Bijlmer in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Tokyo, Japan.
The Pruitt-Igoe project (urban housing project built in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.) which is often used as an example of the unsuccessful venture of American public housing & urban renewal.
Aylesbury Estate in Southwark. This is supposed to be the largest public housing development in Europe:
Red Road Flats in Glasgow, the tallest Council (Public Housing) blocks in the UK:
The towers Aillaud (or towers Cloud) is a housing complex located in Nanterre, suburb of Paris, France. It was built in 1977 on the plans of Emile Aillaud, which are composed of 18-rise residential apartments:
Tallest commie blocks (with 30 floors) in Nantes, France.
East River & Woodrow Wilson Houses.
Residential blocks in Berlin.
In the East:
Bronxdale Housing:
A complex in Metro Manila.
This one comes from Europe.
A social-housing complex in Vienna. The residential park Erlaa old is a major residential complex in the 23rd district of Vienna Liesing. Due to its architecture, it became one of the most popular residential areas in Vienna.
Queensbridge Houses, the largest in NYC with over 3,000 units.
These are the images of housing projects during their construction, or just after, in the main cities of Brittany, western France during the late 1960's & the early 1970's:
Cité of Le Colombier, in Rennes.
Cité of Villejean, in Rennes, 1969.
'ZUP Sud', in Rennes, 1969.
A cité in Vannes, 1969.
Here are some more massive & huge complexes, which we were unable to ascertain the locations & details: 
Source: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.
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3 comments:
The ones under the "unknown" heading look like Hong Kong. I can't identify them as particular buildings or locations in HK, but they have the right style and colour. The bamboo scaffolding is also common in HK.
Hey 'b', thats great piece of info; only if we can authenticate if for sure. Thanks.
You don't have any pictures of Co-op City or Parkchester. Both ar located in the Bronx, NY USA. Both are huge city like housing. Co-op City has its own energy, police, shopping and grade school, junior high and high school.
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