Overview
- Explores the differences in large housing estates in socialist and capitalist Europe
- Quantifies historical and evolving socioeconomic integration and ethnic separation in housing estates
- Explores the uniqueness of housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
- Outlines the future of housing estates
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Context and Vision
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Housing the Masses: Establishing Socialist-Modernist Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries
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Exploring the Socio-Demographic and Ethnic Characteristics of Previous and Current Housing Estate Dwellers
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Complexities of Built Environments in Housing Estates
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About this book
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 (pastand 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.
Reviews
“This much-needed book pays great attention to explaining the historical context of the birth of this sort of housing, the use of standardized types and projects versus innovative planning principles … and the architect’s aspiration towards novelty and original solutions in developing housing estates for the Soviet man.” (Triin Ojari, European Planning Studies, Vol. 28 (6), 2020)
“I strongly recommend [this book] to housing scholars and practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic. The editors and the publisher, Springer Open, deserve credit for publishing two attractive and useful books that address the breadth and depth of issues related to housing estate revitalization across Europe. The numerous photographs (color as well as black-white) throughout the book helped me to understand changes in the design of European housing estates—the good as well as the bad.” (David P. Varady, Geography Research Forum, Vol. 39, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tiit Tammaru is a Professor at the Centre for Migration and Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Tammaru is also the Head of the Centre for Estonian Diaspora Studies and has received both the Estonian Science Award in the Social Sciences (2010) and the Natural Sciences Award (2011). His fields of interest include socio-spatial inequalities, geographical changes in urban regions, governing urban diversity, and social mobility.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries
Book Subtitle: The Legacy of Central Planning in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Editors: Daniel Baldwin Hess, Tiit Tammaru
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23392-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23391-4Published: 06 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23394-5Published: 07 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23392-1Published: 27 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 383
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Human Geography, European Economics, Demography, Urban Studies/Sociology