The Italian Way: Urban Planning Heritage in Albania

• Authors: Giuseppe Resta
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper is focused on ageism in urban planning, taking the Italian WWII planning heritage in Albania as a case study. It expounds three main issues: acknowledgment of modern heritage, dissemination of autocratic identity, and historical planning apparatus. The text investigates autocratic plans as purest fulfilment of Euclidean space, before relentless urban transformations affect cities.

Keywords

EN

Albania; autocratic space; cultural identity; Italian square; town Planning heritage

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Architecture and Urban Planning
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 19-23

Dates

published

2016-07-01

online

2016-09-18

Contributors

author

Giuseppe Resta

• Politecnico di Bari

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/aup-2016-0003