City for Citizens Aida Ciro Elvan Dajko 24 March, 2014Bratislava, Slovakia

www.co-plan.org

Independence 28 November 1912Area: 28,748km2Population: 3,011,40Capital: Tirana

Tirana

The Northern Alps

The western lowland

The Adriatic Coast- Durres

The Ionian Coast- Albanian Riviera

The Albanian Riviera

Gjirokastra

BeratShkoderKrujaDurres

ButrintPorto PalermoAntigoneaApollonia

Tirana

20 February 1991, the Albanian Berlin Wall, fall of the statue of the dictator With the new era of democracy started the implementation of the structural adjustment programs based to the western neo-liberalism theory applying, the so called shock therapy

... by early 1990s, citizens had gained the legal right to freedom of movement, and thus many citizens began to migrate within Albania, seeking out a better life ...

DURRES 1990DURRES 20103X population5-6-7-?X surface

The shape of the CITY-CONTAINER has completely disappeared and now city and country is a continous SHAPELESS MASS

the situation of Tirana after 90 was similar to the situation during / or after the urbanization crises (in the period of industrialization) when the compact city exploded and the metropolitan region started to be shaped

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Bathore_From 1995-2005

Create awarenessArt Performancesin the framework of Revival of City Squares in Balkan Cities

[ participationforgotten history

[ participationrevival city squares_mozaik

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[ participationmorequalitative green

[ participationmorequalitative green

[ participationrevival city squares_sew the city

[ participationrevival city squares_sew the city

Bed & Bunker

POLIS University (AL), Mainz University of Applied Sciences (DE)Financed by: DAAD

Creating awareness

Play the CityPOLIS University, Play the City, Balkan in de Polder

Tirana Architecture WeekSeptember/ October 2012

The making ofPOLIS University, Hans Venhuizen

Tirana Architecture WeekSeptember/ October 2012

Make people stakeholdersPlastic Bottle StationCo-PLAN, POLIS University

Tirana Architecture Week

Urban BundlePOLIS University

Supported by Vodafone

Tirana Architecture WeekSeptember/ October 2012

Ne lagjeIn The hoodPOLIS University, POLIS Alumni, Nai (NL)

Tirana Architecture WeekSeptember/ October 2012

Don Bosko SquarePOLIS University, Tirana Municipality

Tirana Architecture WeekSeptember/ October 2012

Ne lagjenext stepPOLIS University, POLIS Alumni, Nai (NL)

Tirana Architecture WeekSeptember/ October 2012

Urban Provo[ac]tion 1

Urban Provo[ac]tion 2

Urban Provo[ac]tion 3

Urban Provo[ac]tion 4

Urban Activism by ART

City for Citizen 2013

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