This paper examines Tirana’s urbanization process from a socio-morphological perspective. It presents a quick understanding on how Tirana came to be a town, and then how it became the capital of Albania in 1920. This material reflects on different urban interventions that the city has undergone in different social settings and political influences, displaying these […]
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Understanding the Urban Heritage – Morphogenesis of the Traditional Urban Blocks
Körner Zsuzsa A történeti városszövet megújulása 1870 és 1940 között Zsuzsa Körner Renewal of the Historic Urban Fabric between 1870 and 1940BME Urbanisztika Tanszék, Budapest, Hungary, 2015, 183 p. ISBN 978-963-313-146-6
Theory and Reality of Czech and Slovak Urban and Spatial Planning since 1945
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2016, Volume 50, No. 3 - 4
Architektúra & urbanizmus, as a journal published quarterly by a scholarly institution and declaratively focused on the theory of architecture, urban design and human environments, has represented from its very outset a well-anchored space for the discussion of contemporary architecture. In contrast to the monthly publications like the Slovak journal Projekt or its Czech counterpart […]
The New Bratislava of Josef Marek
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2017, Volume 51, No. 3 - 4
The study represents the urban-planning work of the relatively unknown Moravian-born architect Josef Marek, a pupil of Jan Kotěra and a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. During his years in Slovakia after 1919 up until the end of the 1950s, Marek created an entire series of urban plans, though the form […]
Bratislava the (Un)Planned City: the Impact of 20th Century Urban Planning on the Urban Structure of the Slovak Capital
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2019, Volume 53, No. 3 - 4
Bratislava is a characteristic example of a city decisively shaped by the ideas of the 20th century. Over two-thirds of its current area was built in the spirit of the principles of modern architecture and urban planning across the 20th century. Yet these town planning or architectonic conceptions, paradoxically, largely formulated the urban structure of […]