ALBANIA _____further studies...
_ team: Olesja / Ina

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The information necessary to complete this task was provided by our professors B. Aliaj and S. Dhamo, in cooperation with CO-PLAN.

To complete this task we did some schematic maps, representing several information about Albania such as: population density, land use, infrastructure and tourism. As you can notice, the most concentrated area of the country is the west, or how we call it “The Western Lowland”, and less dense the south-east & south.
In the communist period the Western Lowland was one of the most used areas for agriculture. This was a policy of the regime, by changing wasteland in useful land for agriculture, but sometimes their trials resulted unsuccessful.
After the falling of the regime this areas turned back to their original nature. Concerning the future prognosis, agriculture will still be a part of the country economic sources, still concentrated in the Western Lowland.
Regarding infrastructure: new roads are being built day by day all around the country, so in a future perspective they will look like capillary traversing the whole country from edge to edge.
The first tourism map shows the situation during the communism period. As it is shown the most important is the seaside tourism on the whole coast. The other types of tourism were not so popular at that time. As the country was undeveloped, there are few number of spots on the map.The prediction for tourism in the future is in the changing of its strategy. It will not be based only in seaside tourism but it will be expanded in other areas, mountainous ones. So this kind of tourism will be more developed in Albania.


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Population density



1. communist era _ 2. post-communist _ 3. future prognosis


Land Use




1. communist era _ 2. post-communist _ 3. future prognosis


Infrastructure



1. communist era _ 2. post-communist _ 3. future prognosis


Tourism



1. communist era _ 2. post-communist _ 3. future prognosis


Merging together....

In the last three sketch maps I have merged the layers of density, infrastructure and land use, just to give a complete idea of Albanian life during communist, post-communist era and maybe even future.



1. communist era _ 2. post-communist _ 3. future prognosis