Korbi, Marson2024-02-022024-02-022024-02-022024-01-04https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/203429This article discusses the history of Skanderbeg Square and the renovation projects made in the city of Tirana by foreign architects. Written in Albanian, it offers a critical reading of the effects of these projects in the declared scope of the government for gentrifying the center of the city, using a precise ideological project: the invention of the 'Downtown'.Marson KorbiGentrificationTiranaSkanderbeg Square51N4EPiazzaUrban RenaissancePublic Spacetext::journal::journal article