Tirana, Regeneration Policy of the Urban Periphery

Abstract

This article attempts to highlight some of the issues and opportunities for the recovery of Tirana periphery. Tirana is currently in a process of constant transformation of its territory, particularly in the suburbs areas. This transformation has marginalized these parts of the city and so far has not been accompanied by studies or critical analysis for the retrain of these areas. From a compact part, monotonous and chaotic, the periphery should be transformed through mechanisms and different urban instruments, in a urban polycentrism situations. Facing which we should think in the polycentric system of Tirana is not only a spatial recovery, social and economic of the periphery or infrastructure disposition and physical restoration of buildings, but in a much wider action and extended in a articulated range. Through the interventions in the general urban structure of the city, by reactivating of strong economic and cultural development bases associated with strong strategic functions with public interest we may speak of "city" or "civilization" in these areas. In conclusion the article will enumerate a series of points already successfully handled in several European cities and with the same interest that can be brought in different plans on the metropolitan periphery.