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

Author: Llazar Kumaraku
Affiliation:  Polis University

Abstract
The following text is part of the research on the discipline of territorial and urban planning by analyzing the planning paradigms and their transformation in the contemporary period.
This paper highlights the shift in spatial planning paradigms from total planning to spatial development planning based on interventions with a limited spatial extent that have a reverberated influence in a spatial radius that extends beyond the surface where they intervene.
This article aims to emphasize the change of this paradigm through the application of territorial planning with polar intervention in the project 100+ Villages in Albania and its replication in the vision designed for the municipality of Dropull from the study conducted within the International Doctorate in Architecture and Urban Planning (IDAUP)1. It should be noted that the strategy followed by the 100+ Villages Academy to create visions for the development of rural settlements in Albania was not new for Polis University and that for years it has been moving in the direction taken by AKPT for the development of rural settlements.