What is "zolitude"

Zolitūde is mainly an apartment house neighbourhood (or microdistrict), of Riga, the capital of Latvia, located on the city's south – western edge. Zolitūde is a centrally planned estate, consisting mostly of prefabricated concrete block " Brutalist style" homes built in late Soviet times. Construction started in 1984, and was mostly halted in 1991, when Latvia obtained its independence from the USSR. Large parts of the population, as in similar neighbourhoods of Riga, are Russian speaking. Zolitūde had used to be a mixture of council housing and cooperative flats, but many properties have been privatised since the fall of the Soviet Union.