As urban development in the 20th century has become the issue of global concern, more and more new territories have been occupied due to high intensity of the development. International conferences devoted to the regulatory issues of city development held within the current decade (such as HABITAT II held in Istanbul, 1996, ATHENS’98 – in Athens, 1998, URBAN 21 – in Berlin, 2000, and a conference in Brussels, 2001, etc) emphasized the majority of developmental aspects including the great focus on the necessity to further form urban structures with the priority of internal city development looking for more effective and more universal functional uses of the territories, restoration of the existing downtown areas and preservation of their original character. As other post-soviet countries, Lithuania has been also facing the need to reorganize various spheres including urban development. Urban territories have been dangerously expanded, especially during the soviet period, due to the increased general city building-up areas, mostly expressed by the territorial expansion rather than gradual and consistent development (by the use of internal reserves of the city). After the restoration of Lithuanian independence, privatisation, changed character of housing construction, return of land and real estate to the previous owners and increasing value of land under the free market conditions remarkably modified the nature of urban development in Lithuania, at the same time revealing the... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050223_112159-77738 |
| Date | 23 February 2005 |
| Creators | Alistratovaitė, Inesa |
| Contributors | Stauskas, Vladas, Jankevičienė, Algė Regina, Buivydas, Rimantas, Bučas, Jurgis, Jakovlevas-Mateckis, Konstantinas, Daunora, Zigmas Jonas, Miškinis, Algimantas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Vilnius Gediminas Technical University |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050223_112159-77738 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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