Urbanization Influence on the Relicts of Soviet Rural Landscape: Case of Lithuania

The article deals with the possible reuse of the relicts of the Soviet rural landscapes in the areas of rural-urban interface of a postcommunist country using the Lithuanian example. It presents the short review of the development and features of the Soviet rural landscape in Lithuania; the analysis of the sociocultural, economic, ecological, and aesthetic issues related to the relicts of this type of landscape under the pressures of urbanization; and the discussion of the potential of the relicts of the Soviet rural landscape in the areas of rural-urban interface. The analysis of potential includes the discussion of the premises of integration of these landscape relicts in the development of the areas of rural-urban interface; formulation of seven integration scenarios-from renaturalization to urbanization; and the identification of the conditions for their implementation, their possible strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and the possibilities to develop the types of sustainable landscape distinguished by Nohl with corresponding aesthetic character in these areas.