Integrated Cross-Sectorial Plan of Tirana-Durres Area

UP2.2- Regeneration of urban poles
The municipalities of the region should direct
the need for development and investment in
their urban centres to increase the quality of
life and service efficiency. In order to reach
value-added investments for the region
and the community, it is suggested to use
regeneration programs, which should include
many sectors such as economy, education,
healthcare, accommodation, employment,
housing and the environment.
These programs should combine the
regeneration of communities with that of the
urban areas through development and action
strategies, based on the following principles:
redevelopment, rehabilitation, revitalization,
conservation of heritage and environment.
• The regeneration of urban poles aims at
creating efficient and vibrant urban areas
that help to deliver balanced services to
communities in these centres. It is intended
to avoid monocentrism, and it is required to
create conditions for development of areas
with diversified functions.
Development should not be directed to
peri-urban areas, so as not to create new
development areas with increased impact on
nature and agricultural land. It is aimed at
combining the revitalization of existing urban
blocks with the growth of community services.
Urban blocks can be readdressed thanks to
revitalization or redevelopment, bringing better
housing conditions and community service
opportunities.
The municipalities of the region should
foresee in their GLPs the density conditions
as well as the geographic areas of the
regeneration extent, based on estimates
of population, service, access and
infrastructural growth.
• Urban pole regeneration programs should
rely on the principles of sound and sustainable
communities.
The first step is to redevelop the areas such
as former industrial areas that have lost their
primary function and have already become
part of the urban centres. These areas and
their structures represent an opportunity to
increase community services.
The second step is to use them based on
different development and management
schemes, with such tools as: the right to
conditional transfer of property or public
private partnership.
Regeneration programs should be
accompanied by clear management schemes
to enable the establishment of sustainable
economic systems.
These revitalization centres should promote
and guarantee the development of local
economies as well as of communities.
Using such mechanisms as BID / Business
Improvement District along with dedicated
grants and public-private partnership
schemes, will enhance the ability to develop
sustainable communities in regeneration
areas.
These schemes should provide opportunities
not only for urban regeneration, but
simultaneously should provide the conditions
for community employment.
• Urban pole regeneration programs
should guarantee rapid access of these
centres to the economic development areas
of residential centres by means of public
transport. These programs should develop
the necessary infrastructure, preserve the
cultural and historical identity of the areas
and the collective memory of communities.
Create living and working conditions thanks
to the mixed use of the territory, preserve the
quality needed for green areas and access to
urban parks. It is preferred to develop urban
poles that promote walking in pedestrian areas
associated with services as well as connected
to employment and ecological transport.
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