Abstract
The idea of a modernist housing estate was aimed at determining the development of the current cities of the future. The idea developed throughout modernism gave justification for the statement that housing estates were intended to provide all the comforts to its inhabitants, but did not secure an ideal life. Something that was supposed to be clean and obvious did not come true. Attempts to secure a perfect space for the inhabitants contributed to the idea of a city of the future within our reach. Such utopian modernist settlements gave grounds for further developments involving intelligent settlements, cities of the future, living organisms with a central nervous system, capable of collecting and processing all information. The analysis presents a comparison of a housing estate and a city, the first of which became the base for the development of the other one.