OMB no.4 Projecting Shkodra

Preface

PROF. DR.  BESNIK ALIAJ
Rector of POLIS University

MRS.VOLTANA ADEMI
Mayor, Municipality of Shkodra

Shkodra is one of the biggest municipalities of Albania. It is almost like the ‘capital’ of northern Albania with strong impact also in Montenegro and Kosova. The city has a great history and culture, and was consider a stronghold of anticommunist resistance between 1945-1990. Since than it went towards a turbulent transition during 90-s and a significant transformation in the last 10-15 years. Nowadays Shkodra is one of 3-4 main cultural-touristic attractions of the country, but the city is facing also the problems of national recession after 2010. Since the three years ago a newly elected female Mayor - previously an expert of local governance - has been trying to build a team and draft/implement  a participatory development  vision, at least for the next decade of Shkodra. The new territorial-administrative reform of the country created chances for establishing e great municipality in terms of surface, resources and boundaries, but no real fiscal and resources decentralization has been following from the central government. Meantime the newly established municipality did not inherited a readymade strategy and plan, despite those for the ‘old/urban’ municipality before the reform. Read more.

Introduction

Fragments as methodology / an overview of OMB's research
LORIS ROSSI

The coast as an intelligent device: from conceptual to physical interventions
ENRICO PORFIDO

Interdisciplinary exchanges

A Bike Ride for Local Pomegranate Juice / Opportunities for Sustainable Regional Development in Shkodra, Albania
BRADEN KAY, DAVID PIJAWKA, MICHAEL UNDERHILL

The role of environmental Strategic evaluation, as instruments for promoting sustainable planning and development in Albania / The cases of Shkodra Municipalities
SHERIF LUSHAJ, BESNIK ALIAJ

Defining hindering factors of the informal settlements in the general regulatory plan of Shkodër municipality. 
ARTAN KACANI

Creative cities along water margins / Urban and cultural regeneration of Shkodra, city of water
DANIELA KAVAJA

A breathing city / Shkodra and its representative places on the water
MICHELE MONTEMURRO

The Regulatory Plan 

Planning the new Shkodra
AMANDA TERPO, LEDIO ALLKJA 

Shkodra Workshop

Projecting Shkodra / description 
OMB RESEARCH UNIT 

3D printing technologies for a biomimetic landscape design / Rapid prototyping for the  renovation of Shkoder’s waterfront
SARA CODARIN

(Un)margin the Shkodër’s gate / An opportunity to regenerate an important landmark
SAIMIR SHTYLLA

Strategies for urban regeneration through the intervention on the existing buildings / A proposal for the city of Shkodra
VALENTINA FRIGHI

To code or not to code? Investigating the urban-rural transect and other Smart Code instruments in the territorial development context of Albania / Case Study: city of Shkodra
KEJT DHRAMI

Limita(c)tion – How to use the limit as a concept tool of sustainable development in Shkodra
GIAN ANDREA GIACOBONE

Increasing ecosystem resilience through landscape interventions: the case of flooding in Shkodra
ERANDA JANKU

Slow Valley / A modest proposition to cultivate an Agrarian Landscape
JAMES STEVENS

Amphibious Devices / Interventions that adapt to land and water in the protected area of Bask-Rrjoll, Shkodra
GERDI PAPA 

Toolkit design methodology / Architectural project by use of classification and taxonomies
GIUSEPPE RESTA

City of Water

Docklands engine in transition/ Hybrid identity towards new urbanity: the (unpredictable) role of Art
SILVIA LUPINI

Barcelona: A tale of two rivers
MELISA PESOA, CYNTHIA C. PEREZ

The Mediterranean City-World
ROBERTO PASINI

The reconversion of the Litoranea Venetian Waterway: an  opportunity to rethink the eastern Venetian coastal system 
LUCA EMANUELI, ALBERTO GRANDO, GIANNI LOBOSCO

Conclusions

Planning for uncertainties / Learning from adaptive complex systems
LEDIAN BREGASI

Conclusions from the planning process
LEDIAN BREGASI, BESNIK ALIAJ