Tirana: Its History and a Post-Socialist Perspective on Urban Growth and Transformation between 1991–2016

This paper examines Tirana’s urbanization process from a socio-morphological perspective. It presents a quick understanding on how Tirana came to be a town, and then how it became the capital of Albania in 1920. This material reflects on different urban interventions that the city has undergone in different social settings and political influences, displaying these transformations during contrasting socio-political periods through images, diagrams and graphs built from existing statistical data and field-collected data and information. The timeframe for presented statistical analyses covers the period between 1989–2016. The post Tirana: Its History and a Post-Socialist Perspective on Urban Growth and Transformation between 1991–2016 appeared first on Architektúra & Urbanizmus - JOURNAL.

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Let it Sprawl: Post-Socialist Policies Enabling Suburbanization

Suburbanization processes in the hinterland of Bratislava represent one of the most significant socio-spatial transformations in the post-socialist history of Slovakia. The trend of settlement decentralisation within the dynamically growing metropolitan r

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On the Path to Urban DeconcentrationHousing Construction in the Hinterland Zone of Wrocław at the End of the 20th Century

The socialist period in Poland and other states in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with the country’s planned industrialisation and urbanisation. The effect of such a policy was the progressive development of urban areas, especially large cities

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Tracing the Housing Frontline: The Post-Socialist Legacy of Housing Policies in Bucharest during the 1970s–1980s

During the 1970s and 1980s, the construction of large housing complexes in Romania, particularly in the capital city of Bucharest, reached its peak as a result of urban systematization policies. The impact of built densification in those decades can be me

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The Anatomy of Privatization: The Genealogy and Practice of Postsocialist Transformation of Housing in Bratislava

The general story of ECE cities in the era of transformation is well known. What began in the course of the 1980s as an endeavour to make cities more liveable, humane and ecological, ended up in a massive privatization at some point in the 1990s. Mostly t

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In Search of Postmodern City: Urban Changes and Continuities in East Central Europe between Late Socialism and Capitalism (1970–2000)

How is it possible to relate the dramatic story of the metropolises of Central and Eastern Europe at the end of the 20th century? Perhaps the path of these cities from late socialism into restored capitalism could be framed as a tale of emancipation from

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