typology+ documents and analyzes roughly one hundred international housing structures, offering not only a broad range of sustainable approaches to apartment block construction, but also possibilities for using and transforming them in a practical planning context.

Living in the Alps presents exemplary approaches from selected residential developments and construction projects from Europe's eight Alpine countries, and it examines not just dwelling itself but also the integration of various other functions. It thus offers planners, architects, cities, and towns encouragement and ideas for pursuing approaches to residential settlement development and housing construction.