Current challenges in architecture and urbanism in Albania /

Current challenges in architecture and urbanism in Albania / Anna Yunitsyna, Artan Hysa, Edmond Manahasa, Fabio Naselli, Odeta Durmishi Manahasa, Sokol Dervishi, editors.

This book aims to provide a cross-sectorial assessment in a multidisciplinary and trans-cultural context onto the innovations in urban and architectural approaches in designing next human environments within the Albanian context. The continuous concentration of the world population in the urban area...

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Other Authors: Yunitsyna, Anna (Editor), Hysa, Artan (Editor), Manahasa, Edmond (Editor), Naselli, Fabio (Editor), Manahasa, Odeta Durmishi (Editor), Dervishi, Sokol (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2021]
Series:Urban book series.
Subjects:
City planning > Albania.
Urban renewal > Albania.
Architecture > Albania.
Architecture.
City planning.
Urban renewal.
Albania.
Table of Contents:
  • Introducing the architectural, urban, and landscape challenges of Albania
  • Part 1: Next cities between neoanthropocene and asceticism
  • Augmented cities in the neoanthropocene
  • A multi-scalar design proposal: s-RGB (Safe - regenerative green blue) design for the contemporary city
  • Materiality and asceticism in architecture. A paradigm to learn from
  • Part 2: Urban and territorial challenges in Albanian context
  • Tirana-next. A complementary development strategy (and consequent urban tactics) for the informal and historical urban fabrics within Tirana super blocks
  • An observation on gated communities in post-socialist Albania: Three case studies from Tirana
  • The Mangalem quarter in Berat (Albania): Studies in the urban composition of the aggregate and the historical building techniques with relation to seismic action
  • A comparative study between the wildfire prone forest surfaces within the metropolitan area of Sarajevo and Tirana
  • Part 3: Architectural challenges in Albanian context
  • Infill design in informal housing in Tirana, Albania: Transformations and spatial qualities
  • Past, present and the claim for a possible future: The case of Tirana national theatre
  • A study on the prisons morphology, case of Albania
  • Space syntax analysis as a tool for evaluation of social and cultural values of Albanian housing - Case study of Tirana
  • The rise of modernism in Tetova
  • Part 4: Afterword: Tomorrow challenges in cities and planning
  • Cities of tomorrow--Tomorrow of planning. Lessons for the Albanian cities.

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