New landscapes of suburbia generally are promising the fulfilment of dreams of the own piece of land, safe environment for children, a qualitative shift from collective and confined to individual and spacious living space. Actually, created ‘somewhere in ameliorated meadows’, disregarding the environmental characteristics and lacking the usual functions of settlement, such landscapes predestine families to social, spatial and place-knowledge isolation, specific everyday mobility patterns and ex-territorial communities. Is there anything worth (or even possible) saving, practicing and creating in order to overcome the feeling of displacement and develop meaning-giving everyday planning practices? We will discuss the experience and reflections of various practices planning such landscapes in Riga’s peri-urban space, focusing on social issues as much as to historic circumstances. We see the main our task in people’s involvement in seeking the new positive and human ways for creating the communicative landscape.