Matthias Bickert

• Dr. Phil
• Referent at Amt für Ländliche Entwicklung Unterfranken

Neue Städte: Materialisierungen ihrer Zeit an einem konkreten Ort. Neue Städte sind Ausdruck einer Utopie: Mit ihnen sollte die Wohnungsnot im kriegszerstörten Europa gelöst, Wohnraum für groß angelegte Industrialisierungsprojekte und die Verwirklichung einer modernen Lebensweise ermöglicht werden. Zugleich stellten sie Repräsentation von Herrschaf...

Digitalization nowadays is one of the dominant buzzwords in politics and society, and it is widely believed that through digitalization almost all fields of societal and structural development will open up to new and better opportunities. For rural areas, which are often perceived as lagging behind, digitalization stands for the prospect of catchin...

Albania is a country with different religions and a high tolerance between them. This statement is uttered often and willingly used by Albanians, state officials, clerics as well as by foreign media. Nevertheless, various scientists deconstruct this as self-credit and 'myth'. Albania was in fact during its rigid communist regime and particularly be...

Discussing the question if the built-structural transformation to a growing re-sanctified cultural landscape in Albania is matter to a growing religiosity of the country's population or if it is a geopoliitical negotiation of power between religions.

Explaining the main decisive factors behind divergence and to point out spatial impacts from an economic and social-geographical perspective: Which kinds of development path did Communist Net Towns (CNT) take? What about economic dependency of mono-towns and its consequences? How far is rise and fall of CNT an effect of glocalization?

Current funding and development strategy of the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture on rural development.

The presentation discussed how Albania’s cultural landscapes, consisting of several layers of history and its socio-economic discontinuities (Nitz 1995), are at the same time influencing and reflecting the Albanian identity. It follows the thoughts of Assmann (1988) and Halbwachs (1991) on the communicative transmission of cultural memory. It focus...

The article examines the cultural landscape in Albania after Enver Hoxha's rule - in view of the usage of the inherited tangible forms and the new tendencies in religious architecture of the past decades. Two major sets of examples are analyzed: the so called lapidars - emblematic monuments of the communist peroid which are scattered all around Alb...

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Immigration to Albania is rarely discussed, yet transit migrants have increasingly arrived in the country since the beginning of this century. This research highlights Black sub-Saharan African (SSA) football player migrants and their family members in Albania. Despite their relatively good financial positions, this bourgeoning Black African “commu...

Chromium mining was one of the main economic pillars of socialist Albania. In the 1990s, in the wake of the economic transition, extraction nearly stopped altogether. However, chromium mining has undergone a certain revival since the beginning of the 21st century. Its background, context, problems and perspectives are highly diverse. In the follow...

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Die Liste des UNESCO-Welterbes ist zweifellos eine globale Erfolgsgeschichte. Sie hat die Themen des Kultur- und Naturerbeschutzes von einem sukzessive angestaubten Image der Denkmalpflege in ein allgemein positiv rezipiertes Bild übertragen. Hinter dieser Außenwahrnehmung hat die intrinsische Organisation des Welterberegimes jedoch mit Problemen z...

Der Sozialismus erlebt in Albanien derzeit ein Revival. Das betrifft neben einer langsam steigenden Aufmerksamkeit gegenüber den architektonischen Zeugen des Sozialismus in Albanien noch stärker die beweglichen Güter jener Zeit. Anhand verschiedener aktueller Beispiele widmet sich der Beitrag dem in den letzten Jahren stark gestiegenen Interesse am...

Die Dynamik, mit der sich Albaniens Tirana seit dem Fall des Kommunismus in Albanien verändert hat, weiß gleichzeitig zu beeindrucken wie zu erschrecken. Es verwundert deshalb nicht, dass diese Entwicklung sowohl Gewinner als auch Verlierer hervorgerufen hat. Dies gilt für die Bewohner der Städte ebenso wie für den Baubestand.Der Beitrag widmet sic...

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Heritage conservation in general and the cultural heritage sites of the UNESCO in particular are aimed primarily at preserving historical and cultural values. Quite often, the approach is connected to an economic effect: Cultural elements are interpreted deliberately and systematically as part of spatial development strategies, mostly at the local...

For more than twenty years in Greece, by different statistics, accounted about 700 000 emigrated Albanians. Most of them comes from boundary regions with Greece and especially from south of Albania. In the starting process, there were some push factors like: historic, where the region was one of the most dynamic and massive migration, since before...

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Classifi cation as a World Heritage site attracts tourism. This was not the original intention of the UNESCO committee, but the symbiosis that exists between World Heritage and tourism cannot be denied. The Albanian city of Gjirokastra presents an ambivalent case: The city’s historical assets represent its most important potential for development,...

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During its short history, the country of Albania has already been marked by various social extremes. A 40-year-period of communism was followed by a time of transition, which was overshadowed by several political crises of civil war-like conditions in the years 1991 and 1996/97. These conditions also left a deep mark on the urban development of Alb...

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Montenegro seeks its future perspectives in tourism. And there are good reasons for that: The country was considered to be the fastest growing tourism market worldwide in 2007. Notwithstanding a slight decrease during the last years, tourism is still seen as a crucial factor for future economic development. This seems to be a viable option if we co...

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