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What is the representing type of apartment complexes in terms of morphological form? To answer this question, two assumptions might be required. The type needs to be defined and the period shall be sub-devided since there is not a single apartment type, which represents the whole period. The study defines ‘type’ as the two dimensional form which has been developed by urban morphologists and specifically focuses on the site arrangement type and the building block type. The study period is subdivided into every five years to compare the representing apartment type for each period. The periodical subdivision is advantageous due to the comparison of type per period and thus revelation of change of type. Out of all constructed apartment complexes with more than 600 units, 294 complexes were selected for analysis. The findings showed that the representing type until 1990 was the complex with I-shaped buildings and parallel arrangement. However, the type after 1990 has changed to complexes with I-shapeds building and latticed arrangement. After the year 2010, the leading type has changed again to the complexes with L-shaped buildings and diagonal arrangement. The chi-square test also reveals that the site arrangement type and building block type has correlation with each other, meaning means the change of building block type can affect the change of site arrangement type.