Research Article

Building a Nation, Building a Modern Capital City: A Comparative Study of Ankara’s and Tirana’s First Master Plans

Volume: 12 Number: 34 December 31, 2021
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Building a Nation, Building a Modern Capital City: A Comparative Study of Ankara’s and Tirana’s First Master Plans

Abstract

Two capital cities, Tirana and Ankara, once united under the Ottoman banner, shared a similar urban development process ideologically and physically as they were designated the new capital cities under disparate national banners in 1920 and 1923 respectively. After the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, both cities witnessed a non-negligible transformation. Their urban development occurred in a congruent fashion including urban components and settlement patterns with a strong foreign influence, i.e., paid foreign technocrats for the case of Ankara, and the foreign fascist rulers for the case of Tirana. This article provided a comparative analysis of these two cities and their ideological and physical transformations via evaluation of their first urban development plans, i.e., Ankara’s by Carl Christoph Lörcher and Tirana’s by Gherardo Bosio, and ideological charges behind their implementations. The rise of new nationalist regimes employed urban planning as a tool to implement ideological modernization and nation-building agendas. The focus of the text was to correlate how the two modernist plans oscillated between a tabula-rasa approach and conservation and/or neglect of the existing Ottoman built environment.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 31, 2021

Submission Date

August 23, 2021

Acceptance Date

January 1, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2021 Volume: 12 Number: 34

APA
Avcı Hosanlı, D., & Resta, G. (2021). Building a Nation, Building a Modern Capital City: A Comparative Study of Ankara’s and Tirana’s First Master Plans. İDEALKENT, 12(34), 1693-1721. https://doi.org/10.31198/idealkent.980111
AMA
1.Avcı Hosanlı D, Resta G. Building a Nation, Building a Modern Capital City: A Comparative Study of Ankara’s and Tirana’s First Master Plans. İDEALKENT. 2021;12(34):1693-1721. doi:10.31198/idealkent.980111
Chicago
Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz, and Giuseppe Resta. 2021. “Building a Nation, Building a Modern Capital City: A Comparative Study of Ankara’s and Tirana’s First Master Plans”. İDEALKENT 12 (34): 1693-1721. https://doi.org/10.31198/idealkent.980111.
EndNote
Avcı Hosanlı D, Resta G (December 1, 2021) Building a Nation, Building a Modern Capital City: A Comparative Study of Ankara’s and Tirana’s First Master Plans. İDEALKENT 12 34 1693–1721.
IEEE
[1]D. Avcı Hosanlı and G. Resta, “Building a Nation, Building a Modern Capital City: A Comparative Study of Ankara’s and Tirana’s First Master Plans”, İDEALKENT, vol. 12, no. 34, pp. 1693–1721, Dec. 2021, doi: 10.31198/idealkent.980111.
ISNAD
Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz - Resta, Giuseppe. “Building a Nation, Building a Modern Capital City: A Comparative Study of Ankara’s and Tirana’s First Master Plans”. İDEALKENT 12/34 (December 1, 2021): 1693-1721. https://doi.org/10.31198/idealkent.980111.
JAMA
1.Avcı Hosanlı D, Resta G. Building a Nation, Building a Modern Capital City: A Comparative Study of Ankara’s and Tirana’s First Master Plans. İDEALKENT. 2021;12:1693–1721.
MLA
Avcı Hosanlı, Deniz, and Giuseppe Resta. “Building a Nation, Building a Modern Capital City: A Comparative Study of Ankara’s and Tirana’s First Master Plans”. İDEALKENT, vol. 12, no. 34, Dec. 2021, pp. 1693-21, doi:10.31198/idealkent.980111.
Vancouver
1.Deniz Avcı Hosanlı, Giuseppe Resta. Building a Nation, Building a Modern Capital City: A Comparative Study of Ankara’s and Tirana’s First Master Plans. İDEALKENT. 2021 Dec. 1;12(34):1693-721. doi:10.31198/idealkent.980111