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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Modernist Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries: Formation, Current Challenges and Future Prospects
      Daniel Baldwin Hess, Tiit Tammaru
      Pages 3-27 Open Access
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  3. Context and Vision

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 29-29
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    2. A Turbulent Political History and the Legacy of State Socialism in the Baltic Countries
      Allan Puur, Martin Klesment, Luule Sakkeus
      Pages 31-49 Open Access
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    3. The Rise and Demise of the Soviet-Made Housing Shortage in the Baltic Countries
      Michael Gentile
      Pages 51-70 Open Access
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    4. The Exceptional Design of Large Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries
      Marija Drėmaitė
      Pages 71-93 Open Access
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    5. Baltic Crossings: Soviet Housing Estates and Dreams of Forest-Suburbs
      Laura Berger, Sampo Ruoppila, Kristo Vesikansa
      Pages 95-115 Open Access
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    6. Mass Housing and Extensive Urbanism in the Baltic Countries and Central/Eastern Europe: A Comparative Overview
      Miles Glendinning
      Pages 117-136 Open Access
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  4. Housing the Masses: Establishing Socialist-Modernist Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 137-137
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    2. Architectural Transcendence in Soviet-Era Housing: Evidence from Socialist Residential Districts in Tallinn, Estonia
      Daniel Baldwin Hess, Pille Metspalu
      Pages 139-160 Open Access
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    3. Socialist Ideals and Physical Reality: Large Housing Estates in Riga, Latvia
      Sandra Treija, Uģis Bratuškins
      Pages 161-180 Open Access
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    4. Living in a Large Housing Estate: Insider Perspectives from Lithuania
      Viltė Janušauskaitė
      Pages 181-199 Open Access
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  5. Exploring the Socio-Demographic and Ethnic Characteristics of Previous and Current Housing Estate Dwellers

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 201-201
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    2. Socio-economic and Ethnic Trajectories of Housing Estates in Tallinn, Estonia
      Anneli Kährik, Karin Kangur, Kadri Leetmaa
      Pages 203-223 Open Access
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    3. Residential Change and Socio-demographic Challenges for Large Housing Estates in Riga, Latvia
      Zaiga Krišjāne, Māris Bērziņš, Guido Sechi, Jānis Krūmiņš
      Pages 225-245 Open Access
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    4. Soviet Housing Estates in Vilnius, Lithuania: Socio-ethnic Structure and Future(-Less?) Perspectives
      Donatas Burneika, Rūta Ubarevičienė, Aušra Baranuskaitė
      Pages 247-270 Open Access
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  6. Complexities of Built Environments in Housing Estates

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 271-271
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    2. Incomplete Service Networks in Enduring Socialist Housing Estates: Retrospective Evidence from Local Centres in Estonia
      Kadri Leetmaa, Daniel Baldwin Hess
      Pages 273-299 Open Access
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    3. Collectivist Ideals and Soviet Consumer Spaces: Mikrorayon Commercial Centres in Vilnius, Lithuania and Tallinn, Estonia
      Matas Šiupšinskas, Epp Lankots
      Pages 301-320 Open Access
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    4. Between Community and Private Ownership in Centrally Planned Residential Space: Governing Parking in Socialist Housing Estates
      Tauri Tuvikene
      Pages 321-336 Open Access
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  7. Imagining the Future Lives of Housing Estates

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 337-337
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    2. State-Subsidised Refurbishment of Socialist Apartment Buildings in Estonia
      Kalle Kuusk, Jarek Kurnitski
      Pages 339-355 Open Access
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    3. Retrofitting Soviet-Era Apartment Buildings with ‘Smart City’ Features: The H2020 SmartEnCity Project in Tartu, Estonia
      Rein Ahas, Veronika Mooses, Pilleriine Kamenjuk, Raimond Tamm
      Pages 357-375 Open Access
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  8. Back Matter
    Pages 377-383
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About this book

Introduction

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 design to those produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union (between 1944 and 1991, Estonia was a member republic of the USSR).
  
The first two parts of the book provide contextual material to help readers understand the vision behind housing estates in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. These sections present the background of housing estates in the Baltic Republics as well as challenges and debates concerning their formation, evolution, and present condition and importance. Subsequent parts of the book consist of:

  • demographic analyses of the socioeconomic characteristics and ethnicity of housing estate residents (past and present) in the three Baltic capital cities, 
  • case studies of people and places related to housing estates in the Baltic countries, and 
  • chapters exploring relevant special topics and themes.

This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and advocates interested in understanding the past, present, and future importance of housing estates in the Baltic countries.

Keywords

Geography of Large Housing Estates Urban Unrest Socio-Economic Segregation Social Problems and Housing Planning Interventions Urban Population Inequalities Open Access

Editors and affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Architecture and PlanningUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New YorkBuffaloUSA
  2. 2.Department of Geography, Centre for Migration and Urban StudiesUniversity of TartuTartuEstonia

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23392-1
  • Copyright Information The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
  • License CC BY
  • Publisher Name Springer, Cham
  • eBook Packages Earth and Environmental Science
  • Print ISBN 978-3-030-23391-4
  • Online ISBN 978-3-030-23392-1
  • Series Print ISSN 2365-757X
  • Series Online ISSN 2365-7588
  • Buy this book on publisher's site
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