Good Sunday steemit!
Here is the second part of my research on the exponential growth of the city of Durres in recent years!
I chose to split the Italian and English versions because the previous post was too long.
I apologize to my english readers for any mistake in english language, but, you know, english is not my mother tongue, I'm improving it, every suggestion is welcome!
Demographic evolution of the city
Considering only the municipal territory of Durres, the urbanization occured from the first available data of 1971 with a registered population of 60,000 inhabitants, in 1981 there was an increase of 10,000 inhabitants, in 1991 reached the quota of 85,000; while in just 3 years, in 1994, the population reached 98,000.
The population growth of the city continued at a very high rate (+ 7% per year up to 1999 and + 5% per year until 2004), reaching the current values of almost 230,000 inhabitants, thus more than doubling the residents in just twenty years.
The uncontrolled increase of population has not been followed by public investments able to guarantee primary services (such as infrastructure, electricity, running water, sewage system) or a policy for employment, with the consequence of a general deterioration of the living conditions of the city.
To get an idea of the growth due to land occupation you can compare the two cartographies that detect the state of the existing, respectively in the years 1995 and 2011. In the first image, (taken from the cartography of the time, municipal borders Durazzo, year 1995 Pietro Rovigatti, a plan for Durazzo, 2000, editor's room, Pescara) it is evident how the city was physically divided between the real historical center and the productive area, already well developed as a pole in the eastern part of the boundaries.
The south coast appears with sporadic houses as the tourist activity in the bathing sector had not yet developed.
As for the north-west municipal boundaries, the phenomenon of land occupation in the area has already begun, while the urban void of the Niko Dovana stadium marks the northern border.
In the second image, an aerial photo taken from google in 2012, the city appears to be joined, through the spontaneous urbanization of both the free plains and the hills, and is also densified on the southern coast.
-To be continued-
Bibliography
-FORUM A+P periodik Shkencor per Arkitecturen dhe Planifikimin Urban N’ 6 2010
-Giovanni Sergi, (1996), Albania, ex jugoslavia. Crescita urbana, identità culturali, sviluppo sostenibile
-Piero Rovigatti(a cura di), (2000), Un Piano per Durazzo, in Rivista del dipartimento di Architettura e Urbanistica di Pescara
-Piero Rovigatti, Piano Urbanistico Integrato della città vecchia