Bardhoshi

Quantifying urban resilience in Tirana: power law distributions, self-organizing cities and sustainable population dynamicsPhoto by Michael Silkesjöö on UnsplashHello and welcome!Set-up and IntroI have been thinking about different issues in urban planning for quite a while, and one main question that has piqued my interest is: “what makes a city resilient?” Why do some cities manage to withstand and overcome different challenges whereas others struggle with them a lot more? Or why are there hyperlocal differences (e.g.…

Analyzing streets’ names in Tirana, Albania using data sciencePhoto by Mario Beqollari on UnsplashHello!This is part two of my story on street names in Tirana (you can find part 1 here: Hidden Patterns in Street Names: a Data Science Story ). In the first part, we looked into overall gender distributions and how they changed based on neighborhood and road type. For this follow-up post, I will be focusing on occupations and the historical period these figures lived in. Let’s get started!The Data and ToolsAs with the first…

Photo by Alexandr Bormotin on UnsplashHello!I have been spending some time recently compiling datasets and reading up on research on my home country of Albania, attempting to understand it from a data-driven lens. In addition to my own anecdotal experiences, I wanted some systematic method of analysing the country’s social, political and lived contexts. One aspect of Albania that recently piqued my curiosity were street names and their patterns. Looking online, I could find no pre-existing dataset that looked at how the…