The Italian Way: Urban Planning Heritage in Albania

Giuseppe Resta

doi:10.1515/aup-2016-0003

Abstract

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.

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