National Economical Integration and Urban Planning: Case Study Albania

Abstract

Albania, by the end of the last century, was a very isolated country with a centralised economy, small towns, many villages and everything under the totalitarian system. Later on, during the two last decades, the country has experienced many changes. The first one together with the political change from the 'monopartitism' to the pluralism system, was the change of the economy, from being centralised into the market-based one. The other big change was the internal migration, people moved from villages to towns. Those changes have both positive and negative sides, which indicated in the ballance of the urbanization of a country and in the economy, as well. Recent theories of urbanization have emphasized that it is not an autonomous process, but must be analyzed with the main patterns of political and economical changes. Internal migration, connected with the new landscape of urbanization was developed through three stages since the fall of communism: • The first phase was dominated by the informal sector. • The second phase was characterized by consolidation and the emergence of the informal sector to the formal sector. • The third and current phase consists in strengthening the formal sector and informal regulation of development. The main objective of the third phase will be to formalize and integrate the real estate market. It is visible the transformation from informal to formal sector and such a development would affect areas of the financial system of a country. Clearly the restructuring reforms have generated economic growth. Financial sustainability is a developed system, which supports and promotes economical development and, a developed economy is connected with the stable financial sector. There is still significant room for improvement in the management of urban planning development, in particular to find a more appropriate public and private interests in land development and the use of both, private and public, property.The questions are connected with the sectors that affect the economical development of a country: • First, mention construction • The trade sector • Infrastructure • Tourism The analyses of the above topics are connected with National Economical Integration and Urban Planning. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n9p622