CONFERENCEThe process of suburbanization in Babīte rural municipality after the year 2000
Ineta Grine
University of Latvia, Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences
Inese Mieze
University of Latvia, Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences
DOI: 10.22364/fg.17.18
Keywords: suburbanisation, Rīga area, Babīte parish, villages
Abstract
Since the year 2000 the population in rural territories surrounding Rīga has grown mainly at the expense of migration. These territories have been intensively built up over the past 20 years. As result - many new single-family-house villages have appeared in landscape areas or within the borders of already existing villages. One of the rural municipalities experiencing intensive suburbanisation in its territory after the year 2000 is Babīte parish (a rural municipality), where the population has increased considerably and building of new dwelling houses is rapidly growing, forming new residential districts and new villages. The goal of the present study is to characterise changes in housing in Babīte parish (rural municipality) since 2000 under the influence of suburbanisation. The analysis of the present situation proves that Babīte parish has become an attractive place of residence in suburban Rīga with developing housing and a growing population.