Open AccessURBANIZATION OF COLLECTIVE GARDENS IN VILNIUS – ISSUES RELATED TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ASPECTS
Author(s) -
Vesta Sinušaitė-Petreikienė,
Jurga Naimavičienė
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mokslas - lietuvos ateitis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2029-2341
pISSN - 2029-2252
DOI - 10.3846/mla.2020.11363
Subject(s) - urban sprawl , urbanization , capital city , geography , sustainable development , population , capital region , urban planning , environmental protection , environmental planning , socioeconomics , economic growth , economic geography , political science , sociology , civil engineering , demography , engineering , economics , law
Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, has the largest concentration of residents in the whole country. Along with the population growth, 544 386 people were living in Vilnius in 2016, the need for residential land also increases. During the last decade, there has been a noticeable sprawl of Vilnius urban area. One of the phenomena of this trend – conversion of collective gardens into residential zones. Collective gardens in Vilnius city have been converted into residential zones for more than a decade, however none of the collective gardens have been converted into typical neighborhood residential zone from legal or practical perspective. The problem is getting worse due to the increasing intensity of city’s sprawling and converting collective gardens into residential zones.