Dino, Blerta;
(2020)
Post-socialist Urban and Social Transformations in Tirana, Albania: Understanding Morphological Processes and Urban Growth.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This study presents research into post-socialist urban transformation in Tirana, the capital of Albania, dating back from 1991. Albania’s post-socialist urban fabric has been strongly influenced by rapid unplanned urban growth at a country wide level, where the densest and the greatest of all growth has been that of the capital. This research pioneers studying post-socialist urban form in Albania both at the socio-spatial and configurational level grounded on spatio-morphological analysis of original data supplemented by existing research in the field. The study draws on the case study of Tirana to systematically understand the nature of post-socialist unregulated urban development and examine how these socio-morphological processes have contributed to the emergence of distinctive modes of urban life. Albania represents an interesting case, as it poses a multitude of aspects contributing to its post-socialist transition: ranging from far reaching political and legal changes to comprehensive socio-economic upheaval and built environment transformation during this period’. The thematic focus of the thesis is a comparison between the period of Albania’s history associated with the ‘top down’ regime of state socialism that ruled for almost fifty years, and the ‘bottom up’ regime of self-regulated urban development that succeeded it in 1991.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Post-socialist Urban and Social Transformations in Tirana, Albania: Understanding Morphological Processes and Urban Growth |
| Event: | UCL (University College London) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2019. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10070183 |
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