Forum A+P Vol.29
Call for Papers for Forum A+P Nr.29
Planning in the Polycrisies era
This edition's theme is "Planning in the Polycrisies era" inspired by overlapping crises — climatic, social, economic, political, health-related, and technological — territorial, urban, and spatial planning is facing profound challenges. The concept of polycrisis does not describe merely the coexistence of multiple crises, but a condition in which crises interact, amplify one another, and generate structural uncertainty.Forum A+P 29 seeks to create a space for reflection, debate, and exchange on the role of planning within this new and complex reality.
Introduction from the Editors
Doriana Musaj
POLIS University
[...] At a time when cities across the world are struggling with crises of identity, density, and meaning, sustainability has become a word that risks losing its essence. What once evoked a balance between human and natural systems is now often flattened into a technocratic slogan. Against this background, the Polis Urban Forum sought to bring the debate back to its intellectual roots. The round table “Exploring Sustainable Urban Futures” was part of the series Polis Urban Forum, organized within Tirana Planning Week 2024 (April 22-25, 2024) by the Faculty of Planning, Environment and Urban Management, Polis University in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Tirana (HBS) foundation. Their shared cultural and social agendas made this collaboration particularly resonant. The discussion took place at Destil Creative Hub, in the heart of Tirana, as an open event inviting architects, planners, students, and citizens to reflect on the shared condition of urban life.
The session gathered four scholars - Franco Purini, Pantoleon Skayannis, Skender Luarasi, and Llazar Kumaraku - each representing different schools of thought and cultural backgrounds, yet united by a common interest: the city as a living laboratory of ideas. Moderated by Doriana Musaj, the conversation followed a fishbowl format, in which questions and reflections circulated among the discussants and the audience; as Elinor Ostrom would say, “the larger the audience, the wider the pool of the common.”. [...]
Editorial
The Architecture of Relation: Reimagining the Sustainable City
DORIANA MUSAJ
Workshop Reports
Energy Resources
KLEDJA CANAJ
Traffic Management
ARTAN MORINA, MARTIN LERCH, SADMIRA MALAJ
Enhancing Tirana’s Bus Service System
ERISA NESIMI, LEONORA HAXHIU, ERIC STEMMLER
Invited Papers
The Metro of Athens as a Complex and Wicked Planning
Problem of a Megaproject: the siting of some stations
PANTOLEON SKAYANNIS
Some Principles of Architecture
FRANCO PURINI
Towards Equity in Architecture: Designing Inclusive Spaces for Diverse Abilities
KETI HOXHA
Scientific Research Papers
Supermodernity imposed: “A review of Tirana’s post-socialist ur-ban development strategies dealing with non-places of hyper-verti-calization”
FULVIO PAPADHOPULLI, JULIAN BEQIRI
Urban Microclimate In Relation To Urbaniza-Tion And Urban Greening Of Tirana City
SHERIF LUSHAJ, LEONORA HAXHIU
Vehicle Speed and Acceleration Control in a Vanet Simulation (Four Legs Intersection Case Study)
Albina TOCILLA, Tamara LUARASI
Telqel Architecture
Architectural ungrammaticality_the case of Book Building in the center of Tirana.
Llazar Kumaraku
A Second Clarifying Article on the Non-Return to Identity of the Saint Procopius Church
Skender Luarasi
Book Reviews
Survival through Architecture. A Survey and Analysis of the Architectural Oeuvre of Skënder Kristo Luarasi, 1908 – 1976 by Skender Luarasi
Llazar Kumaraku
“Nikola Dobrović: The Shifting Modes of Critical Practice in Architecture”
Juljan Beqiri
Drawings
Fragmented Continuities
Armela Reka
