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Famous Italian journalist Marco Travaglio raises the alarm about the links between the Albanian prime minister, the investigated architects and the dangerous concrete bubble that is destroying the city. The Boeri model, from Milan to Tirana, is exposing urban extortion as a silent crime."...
When Albania sees its Tirana covered in concrete, Italy sees it as a scheme that resembles the urban crimes of the dark years. And this time it is not said by a local activist, but by one of the most powerful figures of investigative journalism in Italy: Marco Travaglio. In his newspaper, “Il Fatto Quotidiano”, he publishes an article with the shocking title: “Empty tower and concrete: The Boeri model, the export of urban catastrophe from Milan to Tirana.”
Travaglio refers to the investigations into Italian architect Stefano Boeri, the official architect of Edi Rama's plan to "rejuvenate" Tirana. From Milan, where Boeri has been under investigation for abuses of building permits, to Tirana, where he has become an icon of concrete "brilliance", the pattern is the same: tower after tower, permit after permit, breath after breath taken from the city.
Travaglio's article is not an urban analysis, it is an indictment. A strong signal coming from the West, where in serious countries like Italy, the destruction of historical centers, the manipulation of building permits and the concreting of air are not tolerated. Investigations have been launched in Milan. In Albania, Edi Rama is both Prime Minister and Chairman of the National Council of Territoriality. His signatures are on all the towers, even when the KKT body does not meet at all.
In the center of Tirana, a tower with the suspicious profile of a man, some say Skanderbeg, others Edi Rama, is the grotesque symbol of a city that is being built for the glory of one man, not for the needs of its citizens. Inside these towers you will find everything but the standard. Slack electrical and plumbing installations, windows washed with clearing money, and third-hand refinishing work.
The buyers? They are not international investors, but Albania's "petty bourgeoisie", builders, concessionaires, people with money to launder. Some of these are the same ones who helped build Tirana's rundown suburbs years ago. The method? The same: they get paid through clearing, work hard, build with concrete and end up in towers that no one wants.
International reports have classified the situation as a “soap bubble,” a “time mine” in Tirana’s urban economy. It is no longer simply a matter of unsightly aesthetics, but of a future economic and social catastrophe. They are standing empty because no one will live in the collapsed city to build towers.
Meanwhile, while Italy investigates and seeks accountability from Boeri, Albania treats him as an "honorary artist" who, together with Rama, decides which buildings should be demolished to place another concrete tree.
This is the drama. And foreigners are writing about this too. And when Travaglio speaks, the silence of Albanian officials is more than loud, it is an admission of guilt./ Pamphlet
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