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Housing Estates in the Baltic CountriesSocialist Ideals and Physical Reality: Large Housing Estates in Riga, Latvia

Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries: Socialist Ideals and Physical Reality: Large Housing... [Large housingLarge housing estateestatesLarge housing estate represent a significant part of the existing housing stock in many Eastern European cities including RigaRiga, theRiga Latvia capital of LatviaLatvia. A considerable number of large housingLarge housing estate estates were developed within the Soviet housing expansion plans in RigaRiga. Based on social idealsSocial ideals and planned economic strategies for urban development, large housingLarge housing estate estates seek their place in the context of other political and economic formations. Socialist ideals and a command economy influenced the principles of town planning and determined the pace and scale of construction. Large housing estatesLarge housing estate are a troublesome legacy of the previous period, which has become a reality in the housing situation of a significant part of the population of RigaRiga. There are certain problems in this type of housing that are related both to the ageingAgeing problem, in housing estates of the housing fund and to the new social and economic conditions. Various processes that have occurred in recent decades—housing reform, land reform, etc.—have produced significant changes in the way large-scale residential districts are managed and maintained. Despite the differences in spatial and structural solutions of housing estatesHousing estate constructed in various decades, they shared some common features according to the common planning principles used in their development. The study is focused on the spatial organisationSpatial organisation of the estates—original ideas, development stages, current conditions and challenges for future redevelopment. Effective planning, financing, management and legal instruments are necessary for executing complex reconstruction projects. Finding solutions among parties with different interests is a complicated task due to changes that will directly affect real estate property rights. ] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Housing Estates in the Baltic CountriesSocialist Ideals and Physical Reality: Large Housing Estates in Riga, Latvia

Part of the The Urban Book Series Book Series
Editors: Hess, Daniel Baldwin; Tammaru, Tiit
Treija, Sandra; Bratuškins, Uģis
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.
ISBN
978-3-030-23391-4
Pages
161 –180
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-23392-1_8
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[Large housingLarge housing estateestatesLarge housing estate represent a significant part of the existing housing stock in many Eastern European cities including RigaRiga, theRiga Latvia capital of LatviaLatvia. A considerable number of large housingLarge housing estate estates were developed within the Soviet housing expansion plans in RigaRiga. Based on social idealsSocial ideals and planned economic strategies for urban development, large housingLarge housing estate estates seek their place in the context of other political and economic formations. Socialist ideals and a command economy influenced the principles of town planning and determined the pace and scale of construction. Large housing estatesLarge housing estate are a troublesome legacy of the previous period, which has become a reality in the housing situation of a significant part of the population of RigaRiga. There are certain problems in this type of housing that are related both to the ageingAgeing problem, in housing estates of the housing fund and to the new social and economic conditions. Various processes that have occurred in recent decades—housing reform, land reform, etc.—have produced significant changes in the way large-scale residential districts are managed and maintained. Despite the differences in spatial and structural solutions of housing estatesHousing estate constructed in various decades, they shared some common features according to the common planning principles used in their development. The study is focused on the spatial organisationSpatial organisation of the estates—original ideas, development stages, current conditions and challenges for future redevelopment. Effective planning, financing, management and legal instruments are necessary for executing complex reconstruction projects. Finding solutions among parties with different interests is a complicated task due to changes that will directly affect real estate property rights. ]

Published: Aug 28, 2019

Keywords: Large housing estates; Social ideals; Spatial organisation; Riga, Latvia

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