Welfare state and urbanisation of modern Lithuania

Abstract

Urbanisation is not an incoherent process in the city planning but a selective and purposeful shift to a systematical city development. The objective of the article is a discourse on a complex understanding of two differrent issues – urbanisation and welfare state, and on a complex theoretical frame in different – soviet and western – urbanisation experiences. The article is still relevant because the soviet concepts of welfare state and urbanisation shaped the cities of Lithuania. The aim of the study was to review the soviet and post-soviet city development as a modern city development (in relation to welfare state) and to foresee some tendencies in the post-soviet modern Lithuanian city according to the present welfare state and urbanisation trends and western city expierences.