Gratë në hapësirën publike: Jeta urbane në Tiranë në periudhën mes dy luftërave botërore
Women in public space: Urban Life in Tirana in the period between the two world wars

Summary/Abstract: Following the announcement of Tirana as the capital of the Albanian state in 1920, and confirmation of this status in 1925, Tirana experienced significant trends, in terms of urban planning. Tirana, a small provincial town with about 10,000 inhabitants in 1918, suddenly faced with the challenge to become the political capital of Albania, and, therefore, experienced significant changes in urban structure and, as a consequence, in urban architecture. Even more important urban planning in Tirana in the interwar period was the expansion and improvement of public regulation. Space and buildings that were designed and implemented in the 1920s and 1930s brought significant changes in the urban fabric of Tirana, expanded public space for residents of the capital. Improvement and transformation of the urban structure and the creation of new public spaces affected the lives of citizens by offering better opportunities for entertainment, and thus stimulated new forms and institutions of life and culture of new roads urbane. Boulevards, the modern bars and restaurants, as well as the electrification of the main roads of the city created a public space more suitable and safer environment to increase the presence of women in the public sphere. Increasing the presence of women in public space and urban life was observed in two main aspects. First, to create associations of women and the expansion of their activity, and secondly, to the involvement of women in new forms of entertainment and socialization, as walks, cinema and artistic activities. Improving urban infrastructure, accompanied by activism of women, the intensification of the public debate on the emancipation of women in Albanian society and impact models Western European in the daily lives of residents of the capital created a framework suitable for the increased presence of women in the public and their participation in urban life. Circumstances were favorable, especially in the capital, as a result of the expansion of public space within the urban transformation that experienced Tirana in the period between the world wars.

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