Joint Approach to Revitalise Kaunas City Centre. Exploring possibilities of Economic and Social Regeneration in the Context of Post-Socialist City Centre

The graduation project is called “Joint Approach to Revitalise Kaunas City Centre”. The study case is Kaunas, second biggest city in Lithuania and fourth biggest in the Baltic States. In the project it is aimed to create an active, liveable city centre and structure clear urban development framework. In order to do that a Masterplan parallel...

Transition towards Sustainable City

Location for graduation project – Kaunas, Lithuania. Lithuania is one of the countries that have been for 50years a part of the communist bloc. 50 years of central planning and plan economy highly influenced the form of cities, the traditions of spatial planning and the habits of people to use space. After becoming independent, cities went...

Enabling inhabitants to act sustainably: From dispersion to concentration in Kaunas region

Productive landscapes of Moscow: Binding modernities

The master thesis explores the possibilities to revitalize derelict industrial territories of Moscow periphery by providing spatial conditions for the mixed-use development.

Flux waterscapes: The transformation of south Bratislava as part of waterscape of Danube

My research design starts from relationship between water landscape and human livability. By doing analysis of Bratislava, I found that the city is facing the serious flood problem, especially the biggest residential area on the right bank of Bratislava. Besides this, the right bank city is a post-socialist city with low quality of living...

Redefining the Baltic way - Exploring opportunities to consolidate the structure of Panevezys

This master thesis is a research, planning and design project in the academic field of urbanism. Research is focused on the post-socialist city in transition of which Panevezys is the case study. The main interest of this project is the potentials of transformation from the current transitional state to sustainable structure in the future. With...

Exploring potentials of the socialist city: In search for relevance of the socialist urban structures in the future of sustainable city. The case of Kaunas, Lithuania

City, catch the time! Rediscovering socialist neighbourhoods in a new capitalist society: Case in Vilnius Lithuania

The graduation project is called “City, catch the time! Rediscovering socialist neighbourhoods in a new capitalist society”. The study case is Vilnius, capital of Lithuania. Focus of the project is socialist housing estates, known as microdistricts. In the beginning of the year I have stated that those housing estates constructed until 1990s in...