Landshövdingehuset is a residential building with a brick ground floor and wooden second and third floors. It was introduced in the 1870s in Gothenburg to alleviate the housing shortage in the rapidly growing industrial city. The local building regulations allowed only two-storey wooden houses for fire protection reasons. The county governor granted an exemption for two-storey wooden houses with 'basements above ground', hence the name. This type of house is unique to Gothenburg. In the 1930s, half the city's population lived in such houses. Around 1940, the construction of landshövdingehus was stopped and from the 1960s many of the oldest were demolished. Nowadays, the many remaining houses are mostly well looked after and are valued homes for many Gothenburg residents. Much has been written about Landshövdingehusen, but until now there has been no major book documenting what remains of the unique buildings. Nor is there any summary discussion of the qualities of this type of house. It is partly about larger wooden houses, which today have once again become possible to build with new rules for fire protection. On the other hand, it is also about the residential qualities of the narrow house and moderately exploited neighborhood development. The enclosed block is a building type that has also come back into use, albeit often with (too) high levels of development. This book summarizes the background history, makes a detailed review of the districts with landshövdingehus that remain in Gothenburg and discusses the narrow and light wooden house as housing and urban development and as a possible model today.