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Understanding Emergent Urbanism

The Case of Tirana, Albania

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  • Provides an alternative methodology for observing and analyzing the city
  • Combines a strong historical and anthropological background, with some knowledge coming from different scientific fields
  • Presents numerous pictures, maps, schemes, and diagrams that support a faster and easier understanding

Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Introduction

    • Sotir Dhamo
    Pages 1-12
  3. The Natural City

    • Sotir Dhamo
    Pages 13-29
  4. Historical Notes on Tirana

    • Sotir Dhamo
    Pages 45-76
  5. Tirana Patterns at a Glance

    • Sotir Dhamo
    Pages 77-145
  6. Conclusions

    • Sotir Dhamo
    Pages 227-236
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 237-262

About this book

The ideas presented in this book are a conceptual leverage to correct the rigidity of top-down practices and bring the real city, or the city of everyday life, closer to the city of conventional planning. Considering self-organization as the starting point at the base of complex systems, this book tries to understand how specific qualities emerge and evolve from this behavior. For this, the book discusses new ways of looking at and understanding cities by applying holistic methods and approaches based on the conceptual grounds of quantum, fractal, and complexity theories. The book highlights the fact that the information on how to transform and build a city is contained within the city itself. In this regard, some methodological steps to unpack complexities and translate the essential qualities of space into potential generators for city design and planning are provided.


The book urges courageous experimentation and proposes a methodology where the computational nature of urban phenomena goes along with historic anthropological ideas, thus emphasizing the characteristics of a specific reality in a model. They do not exclude each other; in fact, they are part of the unbroken web of wholeness. Importantly, the proposed methodology supports gradual and natural coevolution process in the city through combining planned and unplanned actions and the involving multiplicity of actors, impacting on Urban Planning and Design Practice.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Polis University, Tirana, Albania

    Sotir Dhamo

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Understanding Emergent Urbanism

  • Book Subtitle: The Case of Tirana, Albania

  • Authors: Sotir Dhamo

  • Series Title: The Urban Book Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82731-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82730-4Published: 01 September 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82733-5Published: 02 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82731-1Published: 31 August 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2365-757X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 262

  • Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 103 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Economics, Urban History

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eBook USD 109.00
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Softcover Book USD 139.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 139.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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