Rossi, L., Janku, E., Stevens, J., 2017.
Landscape in Fragments: A study of an Albanian landscape corridor from Shkodra to the Adriatic Sea.
| Output Type: | Conference paper |
| Presented at: | ACSA Fall Conference | Crossings Between the Proximate and Remote |
| Publication: | ACSA Press |
| Venue: | Marfa, TX |
| Dates: | 12/10/2017 - 14/10/2017 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 978-1-944214-16-6 |
| URL: | www.acsa-arch.org/chapter/landscape-in-fragments-a-study-of-an-albianianlandscape-corridor-from-shkoder-to-the-adriatic-sea |
| Pagination: | pp. 78-86 |
The Albanian landscape is fractured into paradoxicalparts. These fragments are palatable to the eyeduring the drive from the city of Shkodėr to theAdriatic coast along Rruga Shkodėr - Velipojė. Asone leaves the dense urban environment of Shkodėrand crosses the confluence of the Drin and BojanaRiver the landscape opens up to a vast horizontalplain of agriculture. Behind is the city of Shkodėr - aplace rapidly developing through what local scholarsand architects refer to as turbo urbanism. Ahead,the plain lies the agricultural ruins of the failed communist government.