Integrated Cross-Sectorial Plan of Tirana-Durres Area

4.2 Urban development policies
URBAN DEVELOPMENT POLICIES
Polycentrism and
hierarchy of
urban centres
Urban mobility
network
Consolidation of
urban centres
Energy Efficiency
in Buildings
IIntegration of
informal areas
Comprehensive
regional community
spaces
Accommodation
and social housing
Figure 4.13 Urban development policies
This section of the regional planning guidelines
reviews trends, challenges and areas focusing
on the development of urban areas, centres
and communities involved in them.
To provide increased opportunities for the
development of these areas, the plan takes
into account the best similar examples in
the region and provides regional solutions
to urban territorial development issues
through integrated policies. The latter
would be insufficient per se if they were
not accompanied by territorial definitions,
recommendations and obligations to act
for the stakeholders involved in matters of
territorial administration and management
in the metropolitan area.
UP1- Polycentrism and
hierarchization of urban centres
historical and territorial characteristics of
the development of these centres.
Determination of the hierarchy of urban
centres is simultaneously supported by the
role and position defined by the General
National Plan, where each centre is
considered contextualized and integrated
with the neighbouring centres.
The hierarchization policy of the centres
is applied to promote specialization and
complementary relationships in relation to
one another. Setting a hierarchy will, among
others, enable the increase of the efficiency
of public investments in these territories.
The table below provides orientations on the
role of urban centres based on the hierarchy:
This policy aims at defining a clear hierarchy
between the urban centres of the region.
Reflections are simultaneously based on the
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