No. 62-63 (2022): Rural modern. Themes and context
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Rural Modernization in Lithuania in 1950s-1980s: From Functionalist Agrocities to Regionalist Approach

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  • Marija Dremaite
Marija Dremaite
Vilnius University
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12838/fam/issn2039-0491/n62-63-2022/946

Published 2023-03-29

Keywords

  • Rural modernization,
  • Regional planning,
  • Modern Lithuania

How to Cite

Dremaite, M. (2023). Rural Modernization in Lithuania in 1950s-1980s: From Functionalist Agrocities to Regionalist Approach. FAMagazine. Research and Projects on Architecture and the City, (62-63), 149–156. https://doi.org/10.12838/fam/issn2039-0491/n62-63-2022/946

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Abstract

The modernist post-war spatial organisation and territorial planning was a strictly hierarchical network, guided by the principle of development from the centre to the periphery and best revealed through an examination of regional planning, the functional zoning, and the urbanisation of rural areas. The paper presents a vast environmental-territorial transformation of rural Lithuania under the Soviet occupation period in 1940-1990, during which the forced collectivisation of agriculture resulted in new territorial development. As a reaction to functionalist approach, the regionalist trends were started to be manifested in late 1970s.

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