Abstract. The clusters of the homesteads of the old Liv fishermen from Cape Kolka to Staldzene keep only some of the mosaic grains from the pride and glory of fishermen's homes which existed until the war. In the 30s of the 20 th century, the farming and everyday life of the coastal people is marked only by separate outhouses − the cattle-shed, fishing net, boat and firewood sheds, smokehouses, cellars. They are witnessing the bygone farming by the sea as the boats, fishing nets, plank-ways, and people who have the skill to take a boat offshore have disappeared. Today, it is difficult to name settlements as the Liv villages because the number of the disappeared homesteads and lost people in the last 50 years is so huge that it can only be considered as a distant reflection of the situation it was until 1940. Today, this coastline is functioning as an open-air museum, in which the recreation and tourism industry is developing. Only a rare fishing boat slides into the sea at night, landing the fishing nets and collecting them in the morning, so maintaining a still alive skill in fishing and fish processing. Thanks to today's rigorous legislation, small fragments of the historical tradition of farming and building are being slowly recovered. By studying them during the expedition, there is an opportunity to get information about the compositional and functional criteria of the old fishermen's homesteads.

Today, in the coastal area of the municipality of Pāvilosta, preservable natural riches meet -the seashore bluff of the Baltic Sea, the nature reserves "Ziemupe", "Gray Dune", the old and still living craft of the fishery of the inhabitants of the coastal region. The values of the industrial heritage of the end of the 19 th century are readable -the jetties, Pāvilosta, the lighthouse of Akmeņrags, chimneys of kilns, farm buildings at Upesmuiža, which presently create the opportunities for prospective management and development of the society. The historical experience and the technological requirements of the management of the 21 st century affect the existing cultural landscape and motivate the perspective of development. This is attributable to tourism and the trend of searches for the living space in the municipality of Pāvilosta, proving that this location has the uniqueness of the ecological core and identity of the location. The fishery sector at Pāvilosta is strengthened by the newly built fishing quay and the modern marinas on the right and the left bank of the river Saka, reconstruction works of the jetties and the lighthouses. In renovating the existing building or constructing new buildings, there is an expressed tendency to maintain the scale of the building volume, coloring, and texture of building materials that promote the historic and the new spatial harmony. The lighthouse of Akmeņrags, which creates a pronounced dominant in the landscape, has become a favorite tourist destination.

Today, the historic Trade Canal in Liepāja begins to rapidly recover the character of an outdoor public space of an aesthetically high quality. After the two devastating world wars, the industrial heritage has only remained along the left bank of the canal, requiring a very gentle treatment of the cultural and historical values. The new industrial building that has occupied both banks of the canal from the 60s-70s of the 20th century strongly contrast with the historic building scale, materials, and the application of the architecturally compositional elements. The modern construction technologies can build powerful allegoric comparisons in the language of the architectural form building. This applies both to the wide glazing of the building facade, the curved facade shapes, the structure of the covering material, the green areas, etc.. The revival of the left bank of the canal is a good challenge to also recover the historic urban space on the right bank of the canal or at the side of Jaunliepāja. Currently, this waterfront of the canal, which is untouched by the war, consists of a circumferentially dense production area.

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The cultural landscapes of the Baltic Sea coast in Rucava and Nica parishes consist of ancient fishing villages, lighthouses, natural objects such as seashore, dunes, pine groves, meadows, and others. They have been affected by transformation, especially in recent decades. During coastal surveys in 2019 and 2021, photo fixations, research of historical documents, interviews were carried out and it was found that cultural landscapes are losing quality under the influence of political, social and natural factors, especially coastal erosion. The aim of this work is to study the transformation processes affecting the landscape.