NASA publishes satellite images... images of 84% communist Tirana are shocking (Photo)

NASA satellites have been photographing images of the planet since 1970, creating an archive of over 5 million satellite images.

Satellite images, from 1984 to 2016, show how from a small town Tirana was populated by construction in just two decades.

Tirana is one of the highest density cities in the region and the country, where almost a third of the country's population is concentrated. According to INSTAT's latest data, 862,361 inhabitants were counted in Tirana. The population is mostly concentrated in the Western Valley, where only Tirana has a density of 682 inhabitants/km2.

In the past 15 years alone, the city of Tirana has increased by over 250 thousand.

Tirana as it was

As many who were born before the years -- 80-85 could remember, the 1984 images show Tirana was populated in its center, away from the forested lake area, while the suburbs were mainly the field. Within the city, construction was low and green spaces are recognized.

Dajti National Park was completely verdant, and in what is now known as the Paris Community, there were greenhouses.

Tirana How did it happen?

Since 1994, Tirana's track began to expand from the centre to the suburbs. In just 10 years, in 2004, maps show that the city had expanded rapidly, approaching Lake and Day Park. Green spaces, or fields, have given way to dense construction.

12 years later, in 2016, there's only one beautiful memory left in the former Tirana, or a satellite photo, that brings attention to how a city can be destroyed in just two decades, because of the unplanned and uncontaminated expansion, that today everyone suffers in the absence of green spaces, or in streets full of traffic.

Satellite photos show that only the lake and a small green space are left in the area of the artificial lake, while it is mercilessly surrounded by many constructions. Dajti Park has also been occupied in the lower area. The same has happened on every outside corner, but the inside is much denser than just a few decades ago.

Tirana who knows what will be done?

Although, apparently, Tirana's satellite images are overcrowd by construction, this has not prevented entrepreneurs from running towards building towers in the capital, within the framework of Tirana's new regulatory plan.

The capital's new regulatory plan does not specify how much and where the towers will be erected in Tirana, but they are expected to take place over the years to come.

Builders say that some 15 towers are expected to be set up in Tirana. Urbanists explain that the plan is aimed at building several towers up to 40 floors from the centre along the New Boulevard area to Lake Park.

How, though, does this reaction to concrete explain? Construction is a sector that has relatively rapid and high returns, making cheap capitals preferred to navigate towards this sector in the processing industry, which has the most andralls and lower/Monitor profits.