Abstract
This paper analyzes the spatial transformations that occurred in the peri-urban area of Shkoder city after 1990, particularly the Rrethinat commune, which has experienced the most dramatic social, economic and land use transformations in the Shkodra region during this period, along with Shkoder city itself. This is the first study undertaken for this area and it aims to examine the causes, the dynamics and the impact of these transformations on the community and on land use. Using a problem-resolving (applied) approach, the study finds that the most immediate problems that need to be addressed are: the lack of an administrative identity for this area, the high degree of economic, demographic and settlement informality and the lack of an adequate public infrastructure. It concludes by emphasizing the necessity to develop and carry out a general regulatory plan for this territory, as the final solution to all the above-mentioned problems, and as a way to achieve sustainable development.
Highlights
Regional and spatial planning has traditionally been one of the main areas for application of geographical knowledge and skills (Phlipponneau, 2004)
In the case of Albania, the dramatic transformations it has experienced since the transition have had very clear spatial dimensions, while the urban development and migration phenomena taking place at the same time have been correcting a spatial structure that evolved under central planning, adjusting to the emerging marketplace
It can be argued that the process of urbanization in Albania has gone through three distinct phases since the fall of communism
Summary
Regional and spatial planning has traditionally been one of the main areas for application of geographical knowledge and skills (Phlipponneau, 2004). Within regional and spatial planning itself, the processes of urban growth, urban sprawl and land-use conflict on the urban fringe are among the most important and interesting areas where Applied Geography can make its contribution (Clark, 1999). The urban fringe means those areas just beyond the build-up part of a city; still close enough to it to be subject to intense development pressures. It is above all a place of heightened land-use conflict, uncertainty and profit, its interest to geographers. Much geographical research on urban fringe areas is focused on whether and how to plan for the transition from rural to urban, and the consequences of trying to plan the process (Clark, 1999)
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