Sketching Riga: Study area Vec Riga, Andrejsala and Petersala

In order to communicate my graduation project to a Dutch audience who are unknown with Riga I made a sketch of the area, and will illustrate with photo's the important buildings, public spaces and atmospheres.

Overview Sketch:

My graduation project is located north of the old center, Vec Riga

presentation of Analyses Slow Urbanism Riga

Recently I finished my analyses period by presenting my findings about Riga, Slow
Urbanism and the design area Andrejsala, Petersala and Skanstes. It's mostly about how Riga is and to tell her story here in Holland as the city is not yet very known in general public. At the end I come to some strategies on the scale of the city. These strategies follow the Slow Urbanism principles which I want to apply also on the design area in a more detailed form.

Here below  are the posters, I would like to get some reactions on it, feel free.

Historical development of Skanstes area - Slow Urbanism Riga

Keeping a blog means you have to add a message frequently otherwise it's not interesting to keep coming back to the blog. My apologies for not posting for a while.
Recently I have been to Riga for inventarising and registrating developments in the study area. After that I started to work on my first part of my thesis, the Analyses book. Part of this analyses is the historical development. By doing research on the maps available and comparing them a lot of things become clear why the study area looks nowadays as it is. Also I found out that the development of Riga has been very much influenced by Dutch and other European designers during the past centuries. It shows again how open and what an interesting mix of East, West and North Europe this city actually is.

An english common meadow in Sudbury

The preventive city fire of 1812 destroying the wooden suburbs, nowaday central rayon

Other remarkable discoveries where the fact that this area was really a long time the cities common cattle meadow (Deutsch: Stadts Vieh weide, Nederlands: Meent of veeweide) and that the grid structure central rayon actually is the result of 7 or 8 city fires after which the layout of the city was optimalised again and again.
Hereby the maps on the development of Riga and the Skanstes area starting from 1600 to nowadays: