OMB no.6 Rurban Sequences

Preface

PROF. DR.  BESNIK ALIAJ
Rector of POLIS University

Right after the local elections of 2015 in Albania, I (Besnik Aliaj) was invited in a meeting and training event with the newly elected municipal councilors and administrators of the Region of Gjirokastra, Albania, organized by the German foundation Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. During the meeting I was drawn by the remarks of Mr. Mihal Mano, the recently appointed deputy mayor of the Municipality of Dropull, a newly established municipal entity and a direct result of the latest administrative-territorial reform in Albania at that time. Mano stated that the new “municipality” (the larger territorial entity) was established through the unification of three smaller entities (of rural character), locally known here as 'communes'. Read more

Introduction

Introduction from the Editors
BESNIK ALIAJ, SOTIR DHAMO

Interdisciplinary exchanges

Rurality, landscaping, toursim and sustainbale develeopment
ALESANDRA BATTISI 

Liminality Articulations in Territorial Development: A Research On Biopolitics And Property Right Theories
ARTAN KACANI

Navigating Dropull through liminal spaces and thresholds
LAURA PEDATA, ERANDA JANKU

Dropull - liminal cultures / mapping identities
SAIMIR KRISTO, JOANA DHIAMANDI

Dropull Regulatory Plan

Summary of the general Local Plan of Dropull Municipality
POLIS UNIVERSITY

Difficulties and innovation in GIS application at Dropull PPV case
AMANDA TERPO

The creative process of statistical gathering and analysing in Dropull
GODIVA RËMBECI

Using innovation as a tool for inverting emigration trends in Dropull. How digital manufacturing could leap the technological gap and strengthen the connection between the community and its territory
LEDIAN BREGASI

The process, difficulties and the innovative VSM findings of Dropull
SHERIF LUSHAJ

Workshop

Rurban Sequences. Inquiries on Dropull’s states of Liminality
WORKSHOP 

Sustainable tourism development in Liminal Spaces
AIDA CIRO

Inquiries on the liminality in between Raw material extraction sites and urbanized centers. Study case The quarry in the outskirts of Sofratike
BLERIM NIKA

Landscape of historical identity. Exploring Landscapes in the State of Liminality in/and the case of Sofratika
EMEL PETËRCI

Community-based rural development The potential of a shrinking village with agriculture vocation
ILARIA FABBRI

Digital innovation in rural area. A vision for smart village in Dropull
JOAN KONOMI

Shifting from liminality to destination. The case of Vrisera
JOHANA KLEMO

Actions for sustainable development: A strategy for rural growth in Dropull municipality through the promotion of local resources for building and construction
LAIA GEMM GARCIA FERNANDEZ 

Growing thickness as a research methodology
LAURA BOFFI

Overlapping Layers: a representation and learning landscape code for Dropull
MARTINA SUPPA

Structural Assessment and Seismic Performance of Traditional Stone houses in Dropulli region
NIKOLLA VESHO

Derviçan: a morpho–typological development analysis as a tool for its conservation
VERONICA VONA

100 Villages

Urban and Territorial Planning paradigms in transition. Academia 100+ Villages and Dropulli case
LLAZAR KUMARAKU

 

Conclusions

RURBAN SEQUENCES Inquiries on Dropull’s states of Liminality
BESNIK ALIAJ, SOTIR DHAMO