At the threshold of the 21st century People have been exploring the future of each field. Accordingly In the area of housing the increase in income level and high-technology development facilitated full scale research on the future housing. The purpose of this research is to try to set up a systematic theory on the future housing by investigating theoretical backgrounds of the future housing and development of the future housing planning concept, A document research method was used to analyze the development of the future housing planning concept of three periods from its origin in the 19th century to present : the burgeoning period growing period and maturing period. In particulary this research examines development of the future housing planning concept from the 19th century in which future housing planning concept was emerged to the early part of the 20th century: the burgeoning period. The future housing planning concepts of this period are analyzed as follows ; In order to solve the social problems arising in the process of the Industrial Revolution, the concept such as ; "ideal city", "high rise apartment housing" and "industrialized housing" was formulated. housing" was formulated.ated.