<p>This study examines the relationship between place attachment and privacy within residential complexes, a typical multifamily housing form in post-socialist Tirana, characterized by dense mid/high-rise apartment blocks which drive discourse on the issue of privacy. Departing from this context this study aims to reveal the role of privacy in residents’ place attachment to apartment, residential complex and to city. To achieve this goal, a residential complex in Tirana is selected due to its specific architectural design composed in courtyards (closed, semi-closed and open-outer perimeter), which offers different levels of privacy. To measure the effect of privacy on the attachment to apartment, residential complex, and city scales, the study interviews residents living in these courtyard typologies. The methodology includes visual documentation, sampling (67 each courtyard), surveying (N = 201), data analysis through clustering and mapping of the attachment results. The results show that most of the interviewees are attached to city and their apartments, but not to residential complex. The results according to privacy demonstrate that there is a gradual decrease of attachment to apartment from open (outer perimeter) to semi-closed and closed courtyards, which is mostly caused by noise as a synesthetic indicator. Thus, the study found a meaningful influence of privacy in the attachment to apartment, but not in attachment to residential complex and to city. The most important reasons of attachment to apartment and residential complex are reported their qualitatively evaluated built environment, whereas for city attachment were the opportunities that it as a global place scale gives related to employment, life, and facilities.</p>