Nostalgia for the lost built environment of a socialist city: An empirical study in post-socialist Tirana

Manahasa, Edmond; Manahasa, Odeta

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2021.102493

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“…Although similar circumstances could be seen in the surrounding countries after the 1990s and the housing privatization process [70][71][72], research shows that in some countries of the region, post-socialist housing has many advantages over housing from the socialist period and is of higher quality [73,74]. With regard to the sense of neighborhood, some authors claim that neighboring networks, neighborhood attachment and commitment could be described as quite high in the countries of the region [75][76][77].…”

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confidence: 87%

Social Cohesion and Neighbor Interactions within Multifamily Apartment Buildings: Challenges of COVID-19 and Directions of Action

Stoiljković

2022

Sustainability

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Relations among neighbors are a key indicator of the strength of a local social community, contribute to social cohesion and are an important factor in achieving a higher level of social sustainability. On the other hand, the environment in which people live plays an important role in encouraging social contacts and developing relationships between people. In order to establish social interactions between neighbors within a multifamily apartment building (MFAB), it is necessary to provide adequate spaces for communication between residents. This was especially emphasized during the mobility restrictions caused by COVID-19, although this necessity is permanent. This paper analyzes the influence of the physical characteristics of common spaces in MFABs on the quality and intensity of contacts among residents of MFABs in the City of Niš, Serbia. In order to determine the current quality of these spaces as a physical framework for interactions among residents and to identify the wishes of users regarding interactions with neighbors in these spaces before and during COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, a survey was conducted. The analysis of the survey results and numerous examples of housing design led to (1) the formation of guidelines for future designs of MFABs and (2) recommendations for redefining the standards regulating the field of housing construction in the region, both applicable during the period of the pandemic and after it.

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Section: Contextmentioning

confidence: 87%

Social Cohesion and Neighbor Interactions within Multifamily Apartment Buildings: Challenges of COVID-19 and Directions of Action

Stoiljković

2022

Sustainability

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“…10 e). Similarly, reduced ESP values belong to ECMA located in post-socialist countries of South-eastern Europe where the political changes of the post-90 s boosted extensive “anarchic” urban sprawl in the wildland-urban interface of capital metropolitan areas 43 , 44 , and the post-2000s densification in the city centers 45 . Novel approaches in urban planning promote urban green infrastructure as an effective method to better balance the negative impacts of urban sprawl processes 46 , which would remarkably contribute to the ESP at the metropolitan and urban levels.…”

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confidence: 99%

Ecosystem services potential is declining across European capital metropolitan areas

Hysa,

Löwe,

Geist

2024

Sci Rep

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Ecosystem services (ES) are essential to sustainable development at multiple spatial scales. Monitoring ES potential (ESP) at the metropolitan level is imperative to sustainable cities. We developed a procedure for long-term monitoring of metropolitan ESP dynamics, utilizing open-source land use land cover (LULC) data and the expert matrix method. We compared the ESP results of 38 European Capital Metropolitan Areas (ECMA) regarding biodiversity integrity, drinking water provision, flood protection, air quality, water purification, and recreation & tourism. Our results show significant declines in ESP across ECMA due to LULC alteration between 2006, 2012, and 2018. We found that ECMA in post-socialist European countries like Poland (Warszawa) have experienced high rates of land use transformation with a remarkable impact on ESP. Surprisingly, we found that Fennoscandinan ECMA, like Helsinki, Stockholm, and Oslo which lead the cumulative ESP ranking, faced the ESP reduction of the highest impact in recent years. The correlation analysis of ESP dynamics to urban expansion and population growth rates suggests that inattentive urbanization processes impact ESP more than population growth. We unveil the implications of our results to the EU and global level agendas like the European Nature Conservation Law and the Sustainable Development Goals.

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“…The building that housed the Museum of Enver Hoxha is an interesting example of controversial socialist architecture heritage. It has been the subject of continuous controversy and debate (Nientied & Janku, 2019;Manahasa & Manahasa, 2014). The structure, which was built to be a museum dedicated to the memory of Enver Hoxha, was called "The Pyramid" due to its shape.…”

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confidence: 99%

Memory and Placemaking: Competing Memory, Forgetting and Distorted Rediscovery in Eastern European Cities

Zejnilović,

Husukić,

Ðuho

et al. 2023

Placemaking in Practice Volume 1

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Nostalgia for the lost built environment of a socialist city: An empirical study in post-socialist Tirana

Cited by 6 publications

References 28 publications

Social Cohesion and Neighbor Interactions within Multifamily Apartment Buildings: Challenges of COVID-19 and Directions of Action

Social Cohesion and Neighbor Interactions within Multifamily Apartment Buildings: Challenges of COVID-19 and Directions of Action

Ecosystem services potential is declining across European capital metropolitan areas

Memory and Placemaking: Competing Memory, Forgetting and Distorted Rediscovery in Eastern European Cities

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