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Jun 18, 2023 · A comprehensive analysis of the fate of Tirana’s fascist architecture between 1944 and today, however, lies outside the scope of the present work, as does an analysis of Italian views of this material legacy of Italian fascist colonialism.
Sep 30, 2011 · The Fascist Party was founded in Tirana on 23 April 1939 in the presence of Achille Starace, Secretary of the Italian Fascist Party. On 14 September 1943, the Albanian Regency Council proclaimed its independence from Italy under the protection of Germany.
- Patrizia Capolino
- 2011
Nov 9, 2022 · It was built against the grain of the existing city, which was organized around the old bazaar. The boulevard city of today offers a concrete look at Tirana’s several modernities—fascist, communist, postcommunist, and neoliberal.
May 18, 2017 · The Batista family spent the next eight years between New York City and Daytona Beach in Florida. However, he remained active in Cuban politics and 1948 he was elected to the Cuban Senate in absentia.
- 1 The Emergence of The Organic City
- 2 King Zog and Stile Littorio
- 3 Framing The City
- 4 Spontaneous Waves of Urbanization
Tirana started as an organic settlement at the beginning of the seventeenth century (Frashëri 2004, p. 17), at which time this part of the Balkan territory was dominated by the Ottoman Empire. Notes from Hahn, the Austrian Consul in Albania, in 1854, give the size of Tirana as 2,000 houses, of which 100 were Orthodox Christian, 6 were Catholic, and...
King Zog who ruled Albania from 1922 to 1939, began projects for the Europeanization of Tirana during the early 1920s. This was the first effort to restart the city based on completely different principles and represented the first layer of disturbance aimed at moving from spontaneous growth to centrally designed and controlled town planning and ad...
Between 1944, when the Communist dictatorship was installed in Albania, and its fall in 1991, other important changes occurred in the structure of the city. In Albania, as in many other totalitarian regimes, architecture and urbanism were coercively allied with power. They became ideological instruments for the so-called progressive transformation ...
The decay of the Communist utopia and the dramatic socioeconomic collapse that followed led to rapid and unprecedented urbanization in Tirana and Albania’s other main urban areas. The new conditions drastically changed the role of the state, including with regard to construction activity and territorial control. The emergence of a shapeless periphe...
This fascist influence, with its revolutionary nationalism, was strong on local nationalist forces, which struggled for national sovereignty and economic independence from colonial powers. These founded native fascist and populist groups, with the support of lower and middle classes.
Highly appreciated during the fascist period, Antonio Maraini, apart from his creativity as a sculptor, also served as an organizer of the regime's cultural policy, in important official commissions and as a deputy.
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