Urban Planning Strategy of Albanian Municipalities

Besar Zifla

Abstract: Strategic planning is a management tool that determines the direction in which an organization is moving, and how it will get there. [1] Albanian Government went through a process of Territorial reforms, reconstructing the whole administration, reinforcing municipalities and raising their capacity, especially in terms of urban planning and managing resources. At this stage, it was clear that the traditional Urban Planning, as a way to control and regulate the development of towns and cities, had failed to address the challenges of rapid urbanization, informality and environment vulnerability spread especially on western lowlands of Albania. This text will try to explain the method, the analyze and the challenges to perceive a new Planning Strategy for Kurbin Municipality inside a larger territory, by using patterns of communication as tools to interpret the existing situation and setting a vision for the future.

Keywords: urban planning, Planning Strategy, Landscapes, communication