City of Riga, Latvia
Brīvības street, Riga
Riga, the capital of Latvia, was officially founded in 1201.
Riga is the largest city in the Baltic states. The Historic Centre of Riga has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the city is particularly notable for its extensive Jugendstil (German Art Nouveau) architecture, which UNESCO considers to be unparalleled anywhere in the world.
Riga is located along the Baltic Sea at the southern coast of the Gulf of Riga.
The historical core of Riga is situated on the right bank of the Daugava River, about 10 kilometers from where the Daugava flows into the Gulf of Riga.
There are 747,2 thousand inhabitants residing in Riga. The density of the population is 2434 per 1 km2.
The area of Riga covers 307.17 km2, including:
- Residential areas 67.00 km2 (21.8%)
- Industrial areas 52.45 km2 (17.0%)
- Streets and roads 24.64 km2 (8.0%)
- Parks 57.54 km2 (19.0%)
- Water 48.50 km2 (15.8%)
The Riga City history is more than eight hundred years long, and it has an abundance of dramatic events stored in countless volumes of works and monuments, legends, songs, memoirs and tales.
REGISTRATION
The following Institutions have been registered for the EULP Project. If you also want to be part of it please contact the EULP Assistant Katharina Erne:
eulp@landscape.tuwien.ac.at
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- Latvian Landscape Architecture Student Association [No URL available in database.]
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