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 / edited by Daniel Baldwin Hess, Tiit Tammaru.

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 superior in...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Hess, Daniel Baldwin (Editor), Tammaru, Tiit (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:The Urban Book Series,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Urban geography.
Human geography.
Europe—Economic conditions.
Demography.
Sociology, Urban.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
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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