Municipality of Durres, INARCH – Istituto Nazionale di Architettura Concorso internazionale per la Rivitalizzazione di Piazza della Libertà a Durazzo/International Competition for the Revitalization of Freedom Square

Albania, the new urban season

This section of the site contains articles and points of view derived from specialized sites on a new urban condition of Albanian cities. 
The articles texts indicates a highly critical spirit towards building processes latest realised in the country after the opening of international relations and the initiation of the process of economic transition.
The spirit that animates this collection is to give voice to these observers, encouraging the work of analysis and testimony when the country seems to have begun, thanks to the newfound sensitivity of the new local government, and supporting research facilities and agencies for international cooperation, and institutional volunteers, a new urban season, closer to the definition of rules and tools for physical planning and urban economic development.

Selection articles

1. Rando Vole, Quattro passi a Tirana,

Public spaces and private spaces. The second survival on the first, devouring mouthfuls of freedom and identity. The collective mentality is overwhelmed by traffic and private. Un sociological urban reflection for Tirana.

from: Observatory on the Balkans (Osservatorio sui Balcani) available here:

http://www.osservatoriobalcani.org/article/articleview/9783/1/41/

2. Elina Budina, Dal socialrealismo allo pseudo-modernismo, Shekulli 25 ottobre 2006 (orig. titl. Tirana, prej xhami, alumini, mermeri) Two architects of Tirana criticize the new trends in urban construction in the capital so popular that in other parts of the country. from:

Observatory on the Balkans (Osservatorio sui Balcani) available here:

http://www.osservatoriobalcani.org/article/articleview/6259/1/41/

3. Fatos Lubonja, Ossigeno per Tirana, Korrieri, 5 giugno 2006 (orig. titl Për çfarë ka nevojë Tirana)

With a sharp speech on the pages of the press Tirana, Fatos Lubonja make bare all the problems that stifle the Albanian capital, putting in the foreground the responsibility of the political class.