The aesthetic quality of landscape composition in the urban multi-storey residential areas built in the second part of the 20th century has increasingly become important. These regions present multiple landscape composition problems. The state of the aesthetical quality is determined by several important factors that, when interacting, give detailed information and create a visual image of the inner space in courtyards. The current state has been determined and explored, having chosen the multi-storey residential areas of Jelgava city as a research object.