• DOI:10.1080/02665433.2014.896747
Corpus ID: 154556863

Urban design, ideology, and power: use of the central square in Tirana during one century of political transformations

@article{Pojani2015UrbanDI,
  title={Urban design, ideology, and power: use of the central square in Tirana during one century of political transformations},
  author={D. Pojani},
  journal={Planning Perspectives},
  year={2015},
  volume={30},
  pages={67 - 94}
}

D. Pojani

Published 2015

Sociology

Planning Perspectives

This article recounts the history of urban design in the centre of Tirana, the capital of Albania, during five political periods (Ottoman Empire, Italian domination, communist regime, post-communist anarchy, and Western-style planning). Starting in the 1910s, successive governments have imposed their urban design visions for a grand city centre and tried to erase the built heritage of their predecessors, thus creating an eclectic space. In the post-communist era, the city government has made… CONTINUE READING

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