By Alex G. Papadopoulos, Ph.D.
Department of Geography
DePaul University, Chicago
This short paper on Byzantine maps and geographic science was born out of a conversation with Christopher Deliso, director of Balkanalysis.com. We agreed that there is a need to look at southeastern Europe – the Balkans – from a spatial (geographical) analytical perspective. Our understanding of the [...]
Modernism in Serbia: The Elusive Margins of Belgrade Architecture, 1919-1941
By Ljiljana Blagojevic
MIT Press (2003), 300 pp.
Reviewed by Christopher Deliso
Architecture has long commanded public attention in the Balkans. Swedish diplomats lament the low-quality granite used not long ago to create public thoroughfares in Kosovo – itself an experiment in building – and organized debates are sparked [...]
By Ioannis Michaletos*
Water management is attracting the attention of businessmen in Greece, especially when it is related to the water cycle and energy production. Dams, water transmission pipelines, water depots, and seawater desalination plants are all included in the five-year plan that the Karamanlis administration has relayed recently to the press, as a plan to [...]
