Creation of city vision preparation of urban development plans and regulations for the city of Kamza
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2010
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Since the fall of communism in Albania, the country has undergone profound changes, almost without equal among the transition economies. The effects of such a transformation, both good and bad, have become very visible – in physical and spatial patterns, and in the living condition of the people – in urban areas and especially those which are growing rapidly and are situated on or near the Adriatic coast with easy communication access to EU countries.
This urbanisation process has undergone three distinct phases. The first phase was dominated by the development of the informal sector. The second phase consisted of the consolidation of the informal sector and the emergence of a formal sector. In its third current phase Albania is continuing steady urban growth, further development of the formal sector and rapid regularisation of informal developments (ALUIZNI) alongside new formal developments. Simultaneously, the contribution of the private sector to the growth of the GDP has increased dramatically from 10% in 1992 to 75% by 1996 and is still increasing. As the previous barriers to population movements do not exist anymore, the Albanian workforce has entered regional as well as extra regional economic areas and began to invest their remittances from foreign earnings especially in housing and other real estate sectors. This has provoked an overall rural exodus to urban areas. Between 1990 and 1994, Tirana and its peripheral communes, as well as other provincial cities grew four times more than during the previous 40 years.
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Book of proceedings: Urban change : The prospect of transformation
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