Vlora Waterfront
Vlora is one of the most beautiful coastal urban sites in the Albanian coast. It attracts quite a large number of tourists every season but also during the entire year, especially during weekends. These are facts that make Vlora receive a lot of public attention. Therefore the design of the Waterfront promenade should be a product of not a single designer or a single studio. It should be a product of a collective public opinion through an instrument that ensures the expression of interest of many designers, finalized by an open and transparent selection of the wide public facilitated by the local and international expertise.
Vlora is one of the most beautiful coastal urban sites in the Albanian coast. It attracts quite a large number of tourists every season but also during the entire year, especially during weekends. These are facts that make Vlora receive a lot of public attention. Therefore the design of the Waterfront promenade should be a product of not a single designer or a single studio. It should be a product of a collective public opinion through an instrument that ensures the expression of interest of many designers, finalized by an open and transparent selection of the wide public facilitated by the local and international expertise.
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<strong>Vlora</strong> waterfront promenade<br />
Circulation system / city scale<br />
Circulation system<br />
Circulation is one the most relevant systems, functionally wise, crucial in<br />
order to avoid congestions in the inner circulation of the city, especially<br />
during summer. <strong>Vlora</strong> has already some characteristic axis: transversal<br />
ones, like the main boulevard and the trans-Balkanic road parallel to each<br />
other culminating next to the sea; and the partial longitudinal road, a<br />
continuation of the main axis that follows the coast toward the southern<br />
exit of the urban area. This system of transversal and longitudinal axis is<br />
recalled and improved. The present longitudinal road is connected with<br />
the other coastal part, parallel to the “old beach” area, and transformed in a<br />
complex route connecting the two extremes of the city and our waterfront<br />
area, through pedestrian promenade, bike paths and innovative public<br />
transport means. A new parallel axis is partly created and partly built by<br />
improving existing ones in order to create a by-pass attracting the traffic<br />
and allowing a faster passage through the city without interfering in the<br />
waterfront. Another longitudinal axis than can help partially this traffic<br />
direction is also the new road on the hill side passing through Kanina. But it<br />
is the transversal system that has a real physical impact on the waterfront;<br />
connections are increased in number and capacity. The transversal axis<br />
will allow a faster connection between the inner city and the waterfront<br />
by stitching them together.<br />
METRO POLIS 159
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