Post-communist Tirana: lost in transportation

by, Lutjona LULA

Abstract

In this paper, I will present the current situation in Tirana related to international buses and the lack of the bus station. The city has experienced changes and development after the fall of communism, trying to catch up with Western neo-liberal cities. One of the main features of globalization and contemporary cities is the mobility of people, goods and information. In Tirana, the mobility of people as such exists, but unlike other cities even in the region, there is not a central bus station that regulates the information about traveling. I will try to analyze this phenomenon by focusing on the transition period and urban planning and to see what actually this tells about the capital city and its citizens. The methodology used is desk research and observation, by using the city as a case study. The paper mainly uses the concepts of Auge, Lefebvre and Amin and their theoretical approaches to analyze cities.

How to cite: Lula, L. (2020). Post-communist Tirana: Lost in Transportation. Polis, 19(2), 38–48.

https://doi.org/10.58944/sprg5002