Bridging gaps: Redevelopment of the socialist mass-housing quarter in Vilnius

Many urban spaces during the course of time have lost their intended semantics, identities and representations, and might therefore be defined as post-spaces of various kinds, for example post-industrial, post-Soviet, post-Modernist, etc. In many cases these post-spaces require restructuring not only of their meaning and identity, but also of their functions and urban life. The socialist mass-housing neighbourhoods could be taken as a good example of such case. In this thesis the specific attention is given to urban living environment, mainly focusing on a socialist mass-housing quarter located in Vilnius city centre, and its public space. Many of these residential areas in Vilnius were built over fifty years ago and have not been modernised ever since. Therefore they do not correspond to today’s demands in terms of physical state of housing, quality of inside and outside spaces, etc. This thesis is based on a hypothesis that the redevelopment of public space of this particular residential environment could act as a catalyst for urban regeneration.ExplorelabArchitectureArchitecture and The Built Environmen