This Master’s Thesis has been written as a part of a larger mid-density housing development project by Joint Authority of Tampere Central Region and School of Architecture at Tampere University of Technology consisting of both research and design. The design phase was performed during the autumn term 2011 as students participating in a particular housing design course made mid-density residential schemes to several actual sites in the Tampere Region. The main objectives of the research phase materialized in this publication have been to define the concept of mid-density housing and analyze suitable international housing examples, as well as to examine both the possibilities and challenges of innovative housing construction from the Finnish ...