The Public in Search of Identity: New Symbolism in Urban Spaces. A Study of Central Squares of Balkan Capitals

Nientied, Peter; Aliaj, Besnik

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-93575-1_12

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“…The approach to the Pyramid will be from the angle of memorial landscape and urban identity and is informed by Dwyer and Alderman (2008), Light and Young (2013), Lisiak (2009) and Nientied and Aliaj (2018). The Pyramid may have lost its intended significance as a memorial landscape rather quickly (starting in 1991), still the Pyramid has been a very visible symbol of the socialist period.…”

Section: Ambiguous Socialist Iconsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In 2017, prime minister Edi Rama opened a new main square of Tirana, that should serve as a national symbol, linking past, present and future (Nientied and Aliaj, 2018). Most citizens of Tirana would agree that the new modern square does not give a stimulus to reflect on the past.…”

Section: The Pyramid and A Memorial Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Tirana, the so-called Pyramid, a memorial landscape to commemorate the former dictator Enver Hoxha has survived all public and political discussions, albeit that the structure is now in a rather poor state. The Pyramid is an unusual surviving socialist structure, hampering the creation of an urban landscape that reflects and projects a new European capital identity -and that is what consecutive governments have been working on (Nientied and Aliaj, 2018). In Bulgaria, the empty building of the Mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov, the secretary of the Comintern and the head of the Bulgarian state for the first several years of socialist government, was successfully demolished, in August 1999 (Valiavicharska, 2014).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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TAW 2018 Conference Proceedings [Co-habitation tactics] Imagining Future Spaces in Architecture, City and Landscape

2018

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The turn of the 21st century has been marked by dramatic changes in the political, social and environmental panorama, which are deeply afecting the way we live today: terrorism, migration and global warming are certainly the most pressing issues, and they are putting at risk our very life on this planet. So far we have come to acknowledge that we must simply coexist with such problems and learn to live with their consequences in our everyday life. But while coexistence refers to the mere - and often imposed - action of living together without any productive interaction, co-habitation implies living together peacefully, while promoting some form of exchange. This is why we believe that in the future architecture, city, and landscape should approach such emergencies fostering interaction and productive exchanges between diferent disciplines and cultures. Co-habitation can be achieved through tactics, which ofer the possibility to generate new creative spaces within the felds of architecture, city and landscape. Tactics - a term, which evokes the ancient Greek expression art of arrangement - are actions undertaken by, or addressed towards, the actual consumers/users. Such actions are fexible, they can be continuously modifed, reshaped and adapted to cope with external interferences. The International Scientifc Conference - organized in the framework of Tirana Architecture Week 2018 - aims at exploring contemporary research activities and design tactics that deal with the topic of co-habitation from diferent perspectives and within diferent felds of interest, directly or indirectly related to architecture, city, and landscape. Through the observation of diferent tactics adopted by researchers and professionals, the hope is to identify new research and design trajectories. Within this broader framework, three contexts (architecture, city, and landscape) and eight topics related to the concept of co-habitation (climate change, ecosystem, energy transitions, memory, migration, mobility, technology, and tourism) have been identifed. Contributes from the felds of sociology, architecture, urbanism, planning, leisure and cultural studies, geography, anthropology are welcome, as much as other sciences not mentioned above.

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Section: Ambiguous Socialist Iconsmentioning

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“…Some of these works propose a set of key design principles that should be adopted [21,30,31]. A separate group of works consists of analyses of contemporary transformations of public spaces conducted on the examples of selected urban squares located in different countries and cultural regions [32][33][34][35][36][37]. These works show how modernity is interpreted and manifested and that the transformations carried out are often closely linked with a country's shifting political and socio-cultural contexts [34][35][36][37].…”

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The Tradition and Symbols of a Place in Shaping Public Spaces through the Example of the Transformation of Litewski Square in Lublin, Poland

Bal¹,

Czałczyńska-Podolska²,

Szymski³

2022

Sustainability

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Litewski Square is widely known as the place where the Lithuanian envoys camped to attend the Union Sejm in 1569. Today, Litewski Square represents a space of transformation. The urban public spaces of the square have been rebuilt several times, each instance delineating a distinct rendering of tradition and history. In this article, the evolution of the square is presented in order to analyse three main aspects. Over the years and under changing political conditions, its meaning, role, and function have shifted. Traditions and symbols that shape the space of the square have changed; these changing symbols have influenced how the meaning and functionality of the square have evolved over time. The research methodology of this paper is based on historical and interpretative studies. This form of analysis made it possible to identify the successive stages of the transformation of Litewski Square and, accordingly, in the context of changing political conditions, identify the elements that are important for the meaning of the square today. Litewski Square has evolved from an urban space with a clearly defined function to a multifunctional public space: from a memorial square into a modern space of leisure and entertainment. This paper argues that the accumulation of commemorative elements and directly adjacent recreational spaces give the impression of a lapidary, the constituent elements of which devalue each other. What this means is that, even as the number of commemorative symbolic elements have increased, their status is degraded, as well as that of Litewski Square as a whole.

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The role of landmarks in shaping Tirana’s urban identity: the shift from socialist to post-socialist city

Manahasa,

Manahasa

2023

European Planning Studies

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The Public in Search of Identity: New Symbolism in Urban Spaces. A Study of Central Squares of Balkan Capitals

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

TAW 2018 Conference Proceedings [Co-habitation tactics] Imagining Future Spaces in Architecture, City and Landscape

TAW 2018 Conference Proceedings [Co-habitation tactics] Imagining Future Spaces in Architecture, City and Landscape

The Tradition and Symbols of a Place in Shaping Public Spaces through the Example of the Transformation of Litewski Square in Lublin, Poland

The role of landmarks in shaping Tirana’s urban identity: the shift from socialist to post-socialist city

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