Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries The Legacy of Central Planning in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania /

Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries The Legacy of Central Planning in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania /

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This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries-Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly "westward-looking orientation" in their design produced housing estates that were s...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Hess, Daniel Baldwin (Editor), Tammaru, Tiit (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:The Urban Book Series,
Subjects:
Sociology, Urban.
Human geography.
Europe > Economic conditions.
Demography.
Population.
Urban Sociology.
Human Geography.
European Economics.
Population and Demography.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue-A Place to Live, Work, and Play: Housing Demand and Urbanization in the Baltic Countries
  • Turbulent Political History and the Legacy of State Socialism in the Baltic Countries
  • Soviet-Era Housing Systems Explained: Constructing and Inhabiting Socialist Housing Estates in the Baltics
  • Freedom and Constraints: Ideals Transferred but Eclipsed by Industrialised Housing Production
  • Mass Housing and 'Extensive Urbanism' in Eastern Europe: A Comparative Overview
  • The Ethnic and Social Landscape of Residents in Tallinn's Socialist Housing Estates
  • Residential Change and Socio-Demographic Challenges for Large Housing Estates: Exploring Post-Soviet Riga
  • Soviet Housing Estates and their Residents in Vilnius
  • Living in a Large Housing Estate: An Insiders' Perspective from Lithuania
  • Innovation Inside and Outside "The System": Revisiting the Role of Architects in Planning Socialist-Era Residential Districts in Estonia
  • Evolution of Award-Winning Microrayons and Housing Estates in the Baltics
  • Aspirations versus Reality in the Formation of Mikrorayon Commercial Centers in Lithuania
  • Forms of Governing Parking in Housing Estates in Tallinn, Estonia
  • State-Subsidized Renovation of Socialist Apartment Blocks in Estonia
  • Large Housing Estates in Latvia: Origin and Future Challenges
  • Possibilities for Energy-Efficient and Sustainable Renovation of Socialist Residential Space: "Smart City" Redevelopment in Tartu, Estonia .

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