The Urban Heritage of the Soviet Regime The Case of Riga, Latvia

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Abstract
The Soviet regime of the former USSR instituted and maintained steady programs toward a reorganization of the urban environment according to a political ideology and attempted to solve the usual array of urban problems by placing the interests of the state above those of the individual. Some of these efforts were successful, but most went astray through mismanagement, lack of resources, passive resistance by residents, dislocated priorities, or fundamentally faulty assumptions and objectives. For a half-century Riga, Latvia — capital of a republic and a regional center — experienced all the pressures of Soviet urban policy. This article focuses on the sectors where the differences from Western practices were particularly striking.

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