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Housing Estates in the Baltic CountriesThe Rise and Demise of the Soviet-Made Housing Shortage in the Baltic Countries

Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries: The Rise and Demise of the Soviet-Made Housing Shortage... [This chapter reviews the factors underlying the rapid emergence and subsequent narrowing of the Soviet-made housing shortageHousing shortage (i.e. the rise and slow demise of underurbanisation)Underurbanisation in the Baltics, corroborating the analysis with findings from archival research on housing constructionHousing construction and allocation in the Latgalian city of DaugavpilsDaugavpils between 1945 and 1991. It is suggested that the dynamics of the housing shortageHousing shortage, and the way the Soviet authorities attempted to tackle it, acted as a powerful alternative source of housing and socio-spatial differentiationSocio-spatial differentiation, and that tracing the priorities assigned by economic planners to the different actors involved in housing constructionHousing construction facilitates the decoding of the Baltic residential landscapes. The chapter starts by portraying the roots ofLarge housing estatesroots ofhousing shortageHousing shortage, including the radical suppression of market forces and the housing nationalisation shock of the post-WWII years. It then discusses housing constructionHousing construction, housing tenureTenure forms and housing allocationHousing allocation, and describes the specific experience of Daugavpils within these areas in order to shed light on the overall context of residential differentiation in the Baltics.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Housing Estates in the Baltic CountriesThe Rise and Demise of the Soviet-Made Housing Shortage in the Baltic Countries

Part of the The Urban Book Series Book Series
Editors: Hess, Daniel Baldwin; Tammaru, Tiit
Gentile, Michael
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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51 –70
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10.1007/978-3-030-23392-1_3
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[This chapter reviews the factors underlying the rapid emergence and subsequent narrowing of the Soviet-made housing shortageHousing shortage (i.e. the rise and slow demise of underurbanisation)Underurbanisation in the Baltics, corroborating the analysis with findings from archival research on housing constructionHousing construction and allocation in the Latgalian city of DaugavpilsDaugavpils between 1945 and 1991. It is suggested that the dynamics of the housing shortageHousing shortage, and the way the Soviet authorities attempted to tackle it, acted as a powerful alternative source of housing and socio-spatial differentiationSocio-spatial differentiation, and that tracing the priorities assigned by economic planners to the different actors involved in housing constructionHousing construction facilitates the decoding of the Baltic residential landscapes. The chapter starts by portraying the roots ofLarge housing estatesroots ofhousing shortageHousing shortage, including the radical suppression of market forces and the housing nationalisation shock of the post-WWII years. It then discusses housing constructionHousing construction, housing tenureTenure forms and housing allocationHousing allocation, and describes the specific experience of Daugavpils within these areas in order to shed light on the overall context of residential differentiation in the Baltics.]

Published: Aug 28, 2019

Keywords: Housing construction; Housing allocation; Housing shortage; Soviet Union; Latvia; Underurbanisation

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