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Housing Estates in the Baltic CountriesA Turbulent Political History and the Legacy of State Socialism in the Baltic Countries

Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries: A Turbulent Political History and the Legacy of State... [This chapter provides a survey of the political, socio-economicSocio-economic changes of housing estatesHelsinki and demographicHelsinkispatial social mixing in post-World War IIsocio-economic and demographic changes development of the Baltic countriesBaltic countries. It is meant to give readers a general understanding of the setting in which large urban housing estatesHousing estate were built from the 1960s to the 1980s. The chapter begins with an account of the history of the Baltic countriesBaltic countries, including their emergence as independent nations, their incorporation into the USSRUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and their reappearance on the world map in 1991. The second section analyses the modernisation of the Baltic economies, the Soviet strategies for industrialisation and their impact on the housing sector. The Baltic region enjoyed somewhat higher living standards and exhibited greater openness to Western influences than other union republics, which made EstoniaEstonia. See also Tallinn, LatviaLatvia and LithuaniaLithuania attractive to economic migrants from other parts of the USSRUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The analysis also shows that the Baltic countriesBaltic countries experienced demographic modernisation earlier than other regions of the USSRUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). A high demand for labour is driven by Soviet strategies for economic developmentEconomic development, and slow population growth in the host countries, particularly in Estonia and LatviaLatvia, contributed to the persistence of high levels of immigration throughout the post-war decades. Due to their large numbers, migrant workers significantly transformed the composition of the urban population in the Baltic countriesBaltic countries. Through a combination of factors, including the housing allocationHousing allocation mechanism, immigrants gained privileged access to new accommodation, and they became over-represented in the housing estatesHousing estate. This development connects the future of the housing estatesHousing estate with the integration of immigrants who settled in the region during the Soviet era.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Housing Estates in the Baltic CountriesA Turbulent Political History and the Legacy of State Socialism in the Baltic Countries

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Editors: Hess, Daniel Baldwin; Tammaru, Tiit
Puur, Allan; Klesment, Martin; Sakkeus, Luule
Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries — Aug 28, 2019
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019. This book is an open access publication.
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978-3-030-23391-4
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31 –49
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10.1007/978-3-030-23392-1_2
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[This chapter provides a survey of the political, socio-economicSocio-economic changes of housing estatesHelsinki and demographicHelsinkispatial social mixing in post-World War IIsocio-economic and demographic changes development of the Baltic countriesBaltic countries. It is meant to give readers a general understanding of the setting in which large urban housing estatesHousing estate were built from the 1960s to the 1980s. The chapter begins with an account of the history of the Baltic countriesBaltic countries, including their emergence as independent nations, their incorporation into the USSRUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and their reappearance on the world map in 1991. The second section analyses the modernisation of the Baltic economies, the Soviet strategies for industrialisation and their impact on the housing sector. The Baltic region enjoyed somewhat higher living standards and exhibited greater openness to Western influences than other union republics, which made EstoniaEstonia. See also Tallinn, LatviaLatvia and LithuaniaLithuania attractive to economic migrants from other parts of the USSRUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The analysis also shows that the Baltic countriesBaltic countries experienced demographic modernisation earlier than other regions of the USSRUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). A high demand for labour is driven by Soviet strategies for economic developmentEconomic development, and slow population growth in the host countries, particularly in Estonia and LatviaLatvia, contributed to the persistence of high levels of immigration throughout the post-war decades. Due to their large numbers, migrant workers significantly transformed the composition of the urban population in the Baltic countriesBaltic countries. Through a combination of factors, including the housing allocationHousing allocation mechanism, immigrants gained privileged access to new accommodation, and they became over-represented in the housing estatesHousing estate. This development connects the future of the housing estatesHousing estate with the integration of immigrants who settled in the region during the Soviet era.]

Published: Aug 28, 2019

Keywords: Housing estates; Economic development; Demography; Baltic countries

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