Integrated Cross-Sectorial Plan of Tirana-Durres Area

egional municipalities and line ministries.
• The integration and connection of
secondary and tertiary urban centres in the
national optic fibre network should be at the
attention of central and local authorities.
• Regional municipalities should cover
with ICT infrastructure and services all
their subordinate institutions, which should
exercise public functions, to enable the
establishment of integrated systems of
services in electronic networks.
RT11- Protection and development
of the spaces and environmental
ecosystem
Green infrastructure is a comprehensive
term that involves the protection,
management and enhancement of
environmental resources in urban, periurban
and rural-natural areas. Green
infrastructure includes natural areas and
green spaces in both urban and ruralnatural
environments. It is presented as
a natural physical environment, within
and between urban centres, as well as
between local residential centres. This open
infrastructural network includes: parks,
gardens, forests, green corridors, rivers,
streams and trees along the roads, etc.
The development of green infrastructure
should focus on identifying, expanding
and improving existing green areas, while
ensuring a networking of these territories.
Their development should be based on the
protection, creation and interconnection
of natural areas, parks and protected
environmental areas. Specifically
connecting, through green corridors, natural
areas at the urban, regional and national
levels, both existing and proposed. Park
networks should serve as a catalyst to revive
the characteristics and situation of the
natural habitat, but also the living conditions
of the residents in the metropolitan region.
The connection into a network should be
based on the geographic characteristics of
the terrain, where water and hilly areas will
be connected together with forested areas,
to create interconnected natural systems.
The water system and river network should
be protected with buffer zones, thus
generating the necessary space to create
green corridors along the rivers.
These green protective strips should not
only serve as supporting elements for the
water system, but at the same time should
provide opportunities for the mobility of
living creatures in the region.
Their creation should be developed on clear
territorial itineraries, supported by functions
in support of regional green infrastructure,
such as river rooms. These corridors can be
equipped with off-road biking and outdoor
walking infrastructure. These mobility axes
should be developed in such a way as to
provide safe mobility and low impact on the
nature.
The services provided in them should be
combined with service packages in rural
areas in view of the development of the
environment, tourism, historical and
cultural heritage of the region. The mobility
in these axes should be equipped with
physical and virtual / electronic information
infrastructure.
The services in these territories should be
based on the effective sectorial and crosssectorial
legislation on territorial use.
Initially, it is recommended that local
authorities identify strategic intervention
points within public or private owned
territories and then improve links between
them.
Moreover, local authorities should put in
place the mechanisms provided by the
territorial planning system. Where there
is a possibility to create interconnecting
corridors, government authorities should
intervene using schemes that promote
the use of these territories as natural
environments with service functions, such
as recreation or ecotourism.
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