Rūta Ubarevičienė
Biographic Data
| ID | 4805393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rūta Ubarevičienė |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rūta |
| FAMILY NAME | Ubarevičienė |
| SIGNATURE | UBAREVIČIENĖ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delft University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5894-7120 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The development of medium-sized post-industrial cities in Lithuania during the period of polycrisis
Over the past 30 years, Lithuania has faced numerous crises and significant events that have influenced the development of its cities, most of which have experienced not only population shrinkage but also economic, social, and infrastructural decline. Since 2020, urban trajectories have unfolded in parallel with a period of polycrisis, characterized by the simultaneous presence of the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical instability, the war in Ukrain…
Digital Transition and New Forms of Spatial Inequality
This thematic issue examines how digital transition reshapes spatial inequalities by reconfiguring relationships between people, places, and opportunities. We frame the contributions around three interrelated mechanisms—place attractiveness, access to opportunities, and the coordination of activities— that operate through housing and labour markets. Digital transition reshapes all three mechanisms, generating spatially uneven outcomes across the …
Which Regions Gain the Most From Digital Transition
Since the outbreak of Covid‐19, the digital transition has intensified globally. This study examines its spatial dynamics by focusing on the distribution of fast internet across settlements and how it relates to the location of IT companies and the residential patterns of IT workers. While existing research often emphasizes the urban–rural divide, we go beyond this by adopting a full‐country approach at a fine spatial scale and by distinguishing …
Housing provision
Housing issues are a growing global concern and a key topic on the European policy agenda. Across EU, challenges such as immigration, economic stagnation, inequality, and ageing populations exacerbate housing provision issues. This growing concern demands effective solutions, guided by research, data-driven insights, and comparative analysis. This study overviews and compares housing provision in the EU countries. Using OECD and Eurostat data fro…
A comparative study of socio-economic segregation in European capital city-regions
Previous research based on 2001 and 2011 census data indicated rising levels of residential segregation between socio-economic groups in many large city-regions in Europe as well as globally. Rising segregation is an important societal concern, as place of residence plays a crucial role in shaping access to urban opportunities. Residential isolation can be especially harmful for the most vulnerable groups. Income inequality was identified as the …
Migration's Role in Shaping Socio‐Demographic Structure in the Peripheral Rural Regions
This paper aims to deepen our understanding of how migration shapes the socio‐demographic structure of the peripheral rural regions. We bridge the fields of peripherality and migration research to address the gap in understanding their interplay. We use Lithuania as a case study, exemplifying the metropolization‐peripheralization trend and selective migration patterns. Our analysis uses a unique longitudinal, geocoded data set covering the entire…
Residential mobility and new forms of spatial inequality in the settlement system
This study examines how socio-spatial inequalities are associated with population concentration and de-concentration processes shaped by residential mobility. The study explores whether the patterns of residential mobility vary in different settlement system contexts. It reviews the cyclical urbanization models and the inequality of opportunities they provide in urban, suburban, and counter-urban contexts for individuals in various life stages. T…
Fifty years after the Schelling's Models of Segregation
In 1969 Thomas C. Schelling published his paper “Models of Segregation” and in 1971 he published a follow-up paper introducing “Dynamic Models of Segregation”. Schelling's papers developed the theoretical models of interactive dynamics of individual residential choices, resulting in pronounced patterns of residential segregation at the city level. Even after 50+ years, the topic of residential segregation and sorting remains as relevant as when S…
The role of analytical models and their circulation in urban studies and policy
Cities are so complex that we constantly build models to represent them, understand them and attempt to plan them. Models represent a middle ground between the singular configurations of cities and universal theories. This is what makes them valuable and prone to circulate (between places, institutions and languages) and evolve to adapt to new ideas, local conditions and/or other models. When it comes to analytical urban models (i.e. analytical r…
Morphological evaluation and regeneration of informal settlements
Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of income inequality and socio-economic segregation in large cities
Shrinking regions in a shrinking country
Shrinking populations have been gaining increasing attention, especially in postsocialist East and Central European countries. While most studies focus on specific cities and regions, much less is known about the spatial dimension of population decline on the national level and the local factors determining spatially uneven population change. This study uses Lithuanian census data from the years 2001 and 2011 to get insight into the geography of …
Ethno-political effects of suburbanization in the Vilnius urban region
We use electoral data to analyze the ethno-political consequences that may arise from the fact that the region surrounding the city of Vilnius is dominated by residents with a Polish identity, while those who move to the suburbs are mainly ethnic Lithuanians. In the suburban ring we found increasing voting turnout, a decreasing share of votes for the Polish party, and an increase of the absolute number of votes for this party. The changing electo…
Population decline in Lithuania
Since the 1990s, Lithuania lost almost one-quarter of its population, and some regions within the country lost more than 50% of their residents. Such a sharp population decline poses major challenges to politicians, policy-makers and planners. The aim of this study is to obtain more insight into the recent processes of socio-spatial change and the role of selective migration in Lithuania. The main focus is on understanding who lives in those regi…
Socio-ethnic segregation in the metropolitan areas of Lithuania
One of the specific features of many post-Soviet cities is their multi-ethnic structure, which was strongly influenced by internal migrations within the Soviet Union. Political and economic reforms in the 1990s led to changes in ethnic composition, and the attention given to the processes of ethnic-segregation has started to increase. While most studies focus on capital cities, much less is known about second-tier cities. This article examines th…
Conclusions
Almost thirty years ago, Lithuania became independent from the communist Soviet regime. This resulted in large social, economic, demographic and political changes. In addition to the substantial benefits that were brought by the restoration of independence and the ‘return to Europe’ (Kornai, 2006), major macro-level changes also resulted in extreme population decline. The geopolitical and economic position of Lithuania completely changed: from a …
Large social inequalities and low levels of socio-economic segregation in Vilnius
The city of Vilnius has experienced major shifts in occupational structure between 2001 and 2011 and at the same time there were major transitions in the housing market and suburbanization. The main aim of this chapter is to get more insight in recent socio-economic segregation processes in Vilnius. We used occupational groups as a proxy for socio-economic status, and census tract level data to measure segregation in Vilnius and its three main ho…
Socio-spatial change in Lithuania – Depopulation and increasing spatial inequalities
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signalled a major change for Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. Despite the significant benefits gained with the ‘return to Europe’, CEE countries have also been faced with large challenges (Gentile, Tammaru, & van Kempen, 2012; Kornai, 2006; Kovács, 1999; Shleifer & Treisman, 2014). They had to transform their political and economic systems and find new ways to establish themselves in the context of…
Population decline in Lithuania
This work was supported by the Marie Curie programme under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/Career Integration Grant [grant number PCIG10-GA-2011-303728] (CIG Grant NBHCHOICE, Neighbourhood choice, neighbourhood sorting, and neighbourhood effects
Shrinking Regions in a Shrinking Country
Shrinking populations have been gaining increasing attention, especially in postsocialist Eastern and Central European countries. While most studies focus on specific cities and regions, much less is known about the spatial dimension of population decline on the national level and the local factors determining spatially uneven population change. This study uses Lithuanian census data from the years 2001 to 2011 to get insight into the geography o…
Socio-economic segregation in growing urban regions of Lithuania
This study attempts to analyse socio-economic segregation in three metropolitan areas of Lithuania. Indexes of segregation, dissimilarity and isolation were analysed trying to reveal different aspects of socio-spatial segregation in the urban regions, which experienced major shifts in their occupational structure over the last decades. The main occupational groups were used as a proxy for the socio-economic status. Data from 2001 and 2011 censuse…
Socio-ethnic Segregation in the Metropolitan Areas of Lithuania
One of the specific features of many post-Soviet cities is their multiethnic structure, which was strongly influenced by internal migrations within the Soviet Union. Political and economic reforms in the 1990s led to changes in ethnic composition, and the attention given to the processes of ethnic-segregation has started to increase. While most studies focus on capital cities, much less is known about second-tier cities. This article examines the…
Ethno-Political Effects of Suburbanization in the Vilnius Urban Region
We use electoral data to analyze the ethno-political consequences that may arise from the fact that the region surrounding the city of Vilnius is dominated by residents with a Polish identity, while those who move to the suburbs are mainly ethnic Lithuanians. In the suburban ring we found increasing voting turnout, a decreasing share of votes for the Polish party, and an increase of the absolute number of votes for this party. The changing electo…
Population decline in Lithuania
This work was supported by the Marie Curie programme under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/Career Integration Grant [grant number PCIG10-GA-2011-303728] (CIG Grant NBHCHOICE, Neighbourhood choice, neighbourhood sorting, and neighbourhood effects
Socio-ethnic Segregation in the Metropolitan Areas of Lithuania
One of the specific features of many post-Soviet cities is their multiethnic structure, which was strongly influenced by internal migrations within the Soviet Union. Political and economic reforms in the 1990s led to changes in ethnic composition, and the attention given to the processes of ethnic-segregation has started to increase. While most studies focus on capital cities, much less is known about second-tier cities. This article examines the…
The role of analytical models and their circulation in urban studies and policy
Cities are so complex that we constantly build models to represent them, understand them and attempt to plan them. Models represent a middle ground between the singular configurations of cities and universal theories. This is what makes them valuable and prone to circulate (between places, institutions and languages) and evolve to adapt to new ideas, local conditions and/or other models. When it comes to analytical urban models (i.e. analytical r…
Morphological evaluation and regeneration of informal settlements
Which Regions Gain the Most From Digital Transition
Since the outbreak of Covid‐19, the digital transition has intensified globally. This study examines its spatial dynamics by focusing on the distribution of fast internet across settlements and how it relates to the location of IT companies and the residential patterns of IT workers. While existing research often emphasizes the urban–rural divide, we go beyond this by adopting a full‐country approach at a fine spatial scale and by distinguishing …
Migration's Role in Shaping Socio‐Demographic Structure in the Peripheral Rural Regions
This paper aims to deepen our understanding of how migration shapes the socio‐demographic structure of the peripheral rural regions. We bridge the fields of peripherality and migration research to address the gap in understanding their interplay. We use Lithuania as a case study, exemplifying the metropolization‐peripheralization trend and selective migration patterns. Our analysis uses a unique longitudinal, geocoded data set covering the entire…
Fifty years after the Schelling's Models of Segregation
In 1969 Thomas C. Schelling published his paper “Models of Segregation” and in 1971 he published a follow-up paper introducing “Dynamic Models of Segregation”. Schelling's papers developed the theoretical models of interactive dynamics of individual residential choices, resulting in pronounced patterns of residential segregation at the city level. Even after 50+ years, the topic of residential segregation and sorting remains as relevant as when S…
Ethno-Political Effects of Suburbanization in the Vilnius Urban Region
We use electoral data to analyze the ethno-political consequences that may arise from the fact that the region surrounding the city of Vilnius is dominated by residents with a Polish identity, while those who move to the suburbs are mainly ethnic Lithuanians. In the suburban ring we found increasing voting turnout, a decreasing share of votes for the Polish party, and an increase of the absolute number of votes for this party. The changing electo…
Ethno-Political Effects of Suburbanization in the Vilnius Urban Region
We use electoral data to analyze the ethno-political consequences that may arise from the fact that the region surrounding the city of Vilnius is dominated by residents with a Polish identity, while those who move to the suburbs are mainly ethnic Lithuanians. In the suburban ring we found increasing voting turnout, a decreasing share of votes for the Polish party, and an increase of the absolute number of votes for this party. The changing electo…
Shrinking Regions in a Shrinking Country
Shrinking populations have been gaining increasing attention, especially in postsocialist Eastern and Central European countries. While most studies focus on specific cities and regions, much less is known about the spatial dimension of population decline on the national level and the local factors determining spatially uneven population change. This study uses Lithuanian census data from the years 2001 to 2011 to get insight into the geography o…
Socio-economic segregation in growing urban regions of Lithuania
This study attempts to analyse socio-economic segregation in three metropolitan areas of Lithuania. Indexes of segregation, dissimilarity and isolation were analysed trying to reveal different aspects of socio-spatial segregation in the urban regions, which experienced major shifts in their occupational structure over the last decades. The main occupational groups were used as a proxy for the socio-economic status. Data from 2001 and 2011 censuse…
Socio-ethnic Segregation in the Metropolitan Areas of Lithuania
One of the specific features of many post-Soviet cities is their multiethnic structure, which was strongly influenced by internal migrations within the Soviet Union. Political and economic reforms in the 1990s led to changes in ethnic composition, and the attention given to the processes of ethnic-segregation has started to increase. While most studies focus on capital cities, much less is known about second-tier cities. This article examines the…
Socio-spatial change in Lithuania – Depopulation and increasing spatial inequalities
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signalled a major change for Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. Despite the significant benefits gained with the ‘return to Europe’, CEE countries have also been faced with large challenges (Gentile, Tammaru, & van Kempen, 2012; Kornai, 2006; Kovács, 1999; Shleifer & Treisman, 2014). They had to transform their political and economic systems and find new ways to establish themselves in the context of…
Population decline in Lithuania
This work was supported by the Marie Curie programme under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/Career Integration Grant [grant number PCIG10-GA-2011-303728] (CIG Grant NBHCHOICE, Neighbourhood choice, neighbourhood sorting, and neighbourhood effects
Shrinking regions in a shrinking country
Shrinking populations have been gaining increasing attention, especially in postsocialist East and Central European countries. While most studies focus on specific cities and regions, much less is known about the spatial dimension of population decline on the national level and the local factors determining spatially uneven population change. This study uses Lithuanian census data from the years 2001 and 2011 to get insight into the geography of …
Ethno-political effects of suburbanization in the Vilnius urban region
We use electoral data to analyze the ethno-political consequences that may arise from the fact that the region surrounding the city of Vilnius is dominated by residents with a Polish identity, while those who move to the suburbs are mainly ethnic Lithuanians. In the suburban ring we found increasing voting turnout, a decreasing share of votes for the Polish party, and an increase of the absolute number of votes for this party. The changing electo…
Population decline in Lithuania
Since the 1990s, Lithuania lost almost one-quarter of its population, and some regions within the country lost more than 50% of their residents. Such a sharp population decline poses major challenges to politicians, policy-makers and planners. The aim of this study is to obtain more insight into the recent processes of socio-spatial change and the role of selective migration in Lithuania. The main focus is on understanding who lives in those regi…
Socio-ethnic segregation in the metropolitan areas of Lithuania
One of the specific features of many post-Soviet cities is their multi-ethnic structure, which was strongly influenced by internal migrations within the Soviet Union. Political and economic reforms in the 1990s led to changes in ethnic composition, and the attention given to the processes of ethnic-segregation has started to increase. While most studies focus on capital cities, much less is known about second-tier cities. This article examines th…
Conclusions
Almost thirty years ago, Lithuania became independent from the communist Soviet regime. This resulted in large social, economic, demographic and political changes. In addition to the substantial benefits that were brought by the restoration of independence and the ‘return to Europe’ (Kornai, 2006), major macro-level changes also resulted in extreme population decline. The geopolitical and economic position of Lithuania completely changed: from a …
Large social inequalities and low levels of socio-economic segregation in Vilnius
The city of Vilnius has experienced major shifts in occupational structure between 2001 and 2011 and at the same time there were major transitions in the housing market and suburbanization. The main aim of this chapter is to get more insight in recent socio-economic segregation processes in Vilnius. We used occupational groups as a proxy for socio-economic status, and census tract level data to measure segregation in Vilnius and its three main ho…
Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of income inequality and socio-economic segregation in large cities
Morphological evaluation and regeneration of informal settlements
Residential mobility and new forms of spatial inequality in the settlement system
This study examines how socio-spatial inequalities are associated with population concentration and de-concentration processes shaped by residential mobility. The study explores whether the patterns of residential mobility vary in different settlement system contexts. It reviews the cyclical urbanization models and the inequality of opportunities they provide in urban, suburban, and counter-urban contexts for individuals in various life stages. T…
Fifty years after the Schelling's Models of Segregation
In 1969 Thomas C. Schelling published his paper “Models of Segregation” and in 1971 he published a follow-up paper introducing “Dynamic Models of Segregation”. Schelling's papers developed the theoretical models of interactive dynamics of individual residential choices, resulting in pronounced patterns of residential segregation at the city level. Even after 50+ years, the topic of residential segregation and sorting remains as relevant as when S…
The role of analytical models and their circulation in urban studies and policy
Cities are so complex that we constantly build models to represent them, understand them and attempt to plan them. Models represent a middle ground between the singular configurations of cities and universal theories. This is what makes them valuable and prone to circulate (between places, institutions and languages) and evolve to adapt to new ideas, local conditions and/or other models. When it comes to analytical urban models (i.e. analytical r…
Migration's Role in Shaping Socio‐Demographic Structure in the Peripheral Rural Regions
This paper aims to deepen our understanding of how migration shapes the socio‐demographic structure of the peripheral rural regions. We bridge the fields of peripherality and migration research to address the gap in understanding their interplay. We use Lithuania as a case study, exemplifying the metropolization‐peripheralization trend and selective migration patterns. Our analysis uses a unique longitudinal, geocoded data set covering the entire…
The development of medium-sized post-industrial cities in Lithuania during the period of polycrisis
Over the past 30 years, Lithuania has faced numerous crises and significant events that have influenced the development of its cities, most of which have experienced not only population shrinkage but also economic, social, and infrastructural decline. Since 2020, urban trajectories have unfolded in parallel with a period of polycrisis, characterized by the simultaneous presence of the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical instability, the war in Ukrain…
Digital Transition and New Forms of Spatial Inequality
This thematic issue examines how digital transition reshapes spatial inequalities by reconfiguring relationships between people, places, and opportunities. We frame the contributions around three interrelated mechanisms—place attractiveness, access to opportunities, and the coordination of activities— that operate through housing and labour markets. Digital transition reshapes all three mechanisms, generating spatially uneven outcomes across the …
Which Regions Gain the Most From Digital Transition
Since the outbreak of Covid‐19, the digital transition has intensified globally. This study examines its spatial dynamics by focusing on the distribution of fast internet across settlements and how it relates to the location of IT companies and the residential patterns of IT workers. While existing research often emphasizes the urban–rural divide, we go beyond this by adopting a full‐country approach at a fine spatial scale and by distinguishing …
Housing provision
Housing issues are a growing global concern and a key topic on the European policy agenda. Across EU, challenges such as immigration, economic stagnation, inequality, and ageing populations exacerbate housing provision issues. This growing concern demands effective solutions, guided by research, data-driven insights, and comparative analysis. This study overviews and compares housing provision in the EU countries. Using OECD and Eurostat data fro…
A comparative study of socio-economic segregation in European capital city-regions
Previous research based on 2001 and 2011 census data indicated rising levels of residential segregation between socio-economic groups in many large city-regions in Europe as well as globally. Rising segregation is an important societal concern, as place of residence plays a crucial role in shaping access to urban opportunities. Residential isolation can be especially harmful for the most vulnerable groups. Income inequality was identified as the …
Geography (17 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (17 works) · Economics (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Economic geography (13 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Demography (10 works) · Rural development and sustainability (10 works) · Census (9 works) · Population (9 works)