Where to live in Riga 2019
With so many great locations and up and coming neighborhoods choosing your new home in Riga is getting more complicated! Would you follow your gut feeling or be more analytic and base your decision on facts? See our newest blog post about the best places and neighborhoods to live in Riga in 2019! Here you …
Riga and Latvia have a great potential for high quality of life
Riga is the capital city and a financial and cultural center of Latvia. It is also the largest city in the Baltic States with more than 600 000 people. The close proximity to nature and well-established connections to suburban areas and coastal cities makes it a great place for work-life balance. The question is how …
Top 9 neighborhoods in Riga to live 2018
Do you know which is the best place to live in Riga? Which are the cheapest and the most expensive neighborhoods in Riga? Which neighborhoods in Riga are great for students, young professionals or family life? To answer all of these questions Urban Treetops have gathered descriptions, reviews, and history of nine neighborhoods that are made …
The City of Kings with a Bright tomorrow – Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany is something more than a city of past, it’s a bright, warm and beautiful city of tomorrow. A city that once was a home to many Prussian kings and the German Kaiser. The city is also a great mix of developed infrastructure, orderly environment and just a pleasant place to be. Potsdam is a city …
Where to live in the Baltic States: Vilnius a city of Future and Past
After Urban Treetops team visited Vilnius we concluded that this city is pretty cool. You may ask: What is so special about Vilnius? Well, let’s find out! First of all, Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, but it’s also a place were the past and future meets. Vilnius was established in the early 14th century and nowadays …
Ārpus pilsētas | No Rīgas uz Bīriņiem
Urban Treetops komanda šoreiz apskatīja jaunu pārgājiena vietu 50 km+ robežās no Rīgas ar nosaukumu “Bīriņi“, kā arī Bīriņu pils teritoriju. Šis ir kārtējais lieliskais piemērs, kas atspoguļo pilsētvides savienojamību ar lauku apvidu. Latvijas daba ir patiesi unikāla. Bīriņi ir lieliska vieta vienas dienas atpūtai dabā, jo tā piedāvā visu, ko sirds kāro. Patīkami ir tas, ka Bīriņi ir …
Par zaļāku pilsētvidi nevis betona džungļiem: 16 lietas, ko Rīga var mācīties no Ņujorkas
Nebūtu pareizi salīdzināt pilsētas, kuras atrodas dažādās svara kategorijās. Tādēļ, mēs nesalīdzināsim un nevērtēsim vai Rīga ir labāka vai sliktāka par Ņujorkas pilsētu, ASV. Mēs uzskaitīsim tikai labās lietas, ko varam aizgūt un mācīties no Ņujorkas pilsētas un varbūt realizēt mūsu pilsētā – Rīgā. Urban Treetops nekustamā īpašuma pārvaldīšanas komanda ir pārliecināta, ka Rīga var …
Green is better than concrete: 16 things Riga can learn from New York City
It wouldn’t be right to compare cities that are in two different weight categories. Therefore, we are not comparing if Riga is better or worse than New York City. We will list the good things about one of the most diverse cities in the world – New York. Let’s see if there are things that we …
Outside of the city | Rīga – Ķemeri
50km+ hiking places from the city center Our team continues to reconnect urban environment with nature and this time we visited “Great Kemeri Bog Boardwalk”. Recently we started an intiative: 50km+ hiking places from city center with a goal of findig all the cool places near to our urban centers in Latvia and other parts …
Outside of the city | Rīga – Bīriņi
Urban Treetops explored a new hiking place 50+km from city of Riga, Latvia which is called Bīriņi and its surrounding territory of Bīriņu castle. This is another great example of connectivity between cities and rural areas, especially if the travelling distance is so small. In less than an hour you can reach this gorgeous place …