Ideologjia e natyrës në qytet [Nature and the City, an Ideology]

This article offers a translation in Albanian of a short extract of the first chapter of Manfredo Tafuri's book 'Architecture and Utopia'. The translation is introduced by a guiding text that tries to clarify Tafuri's text, in the context of urban transformations and renovations affecting the city of Tirana, a paradigmatic case of how nature in the city is often used as an ideological mask for legitimizing other policies.