This is a superb look at twenty apartment projects that showcase sustainability and environmentally-friendly concepts. Sustainable Apartments Development provides a current, comprehensive and contemporary vision of the architectural panorama in regard to the design of residential buildings in the urban environment, drawing on twenty examples of projects built in the last five years. Extensively illustrated, the book examines different formal typologies of urban high rise apartments through concise and explanatory text, documentary photographs and a great array of plans, sections, elevations, details, sketches, computer graphics and diagrams. At the same time, the idea of sustainability is stressed, with an in-depth look at the environmental characteristics of each project.