Crossings Between the Proximate and Remote

Landscape in Fragments: A Study of an Albianian Landscape Corridor from Shkoder to the Adriatic Sea

Fall Conference Proceedings

Author(s): Eranda Janku, James Stevens & Loris Rossi

The Albanian landscape is fractured into paradoxicalparts. These fragments are palatable to the eyeduring the drive from the city of Shkodër to theAdriatic coast along Rruga Shkodër – Velipojë. Asone leaves the dense urban environment of Shkodërand crosses the confluence of the Drin and BojanaRiver the landscape opens up to a vast horizontalplain of agriculture. Behind is the city of Shkodër – aplace rapidly developing through what local scholarsand architects refer to as turbo urbanism. Ahead,the plain lies the agricultural ruins of the failedcommunist government.

Volume Editors
Urs Peter Flueckiger & Victoria McReynolds

ISBN
978-1-944214-16-6