A very interesting Foreign Policy article on an important period of Western European and Muslim relations, worth to read. “Before the continent started banning hijab, European aristocrats used to change their names to Abdullah and Muhammad, and […]
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A magyar gazdaságföldrajz és területi tervezés transznacionális története az államszocialista időszakban, 1949-1989
>>Scroll down for english version Az imént fejeztem be egy pályázathoz benyújtandó kutatási tervet, ami lényegében a doktori kutatásaim folytatását képezné a hazai empíria megkutatásával. A transznacionális történeti szemléletet követő kutatás az államszocialista időszak magyar gazdaságföldrajzának és területi tervezésének […]
Christaller in Africa
Peculiar or not so peculiar stories Previously I wrote about the stories of Károly Perczel and László Huszár. Both were Hungarian architects, urbanists and regional planners, but the latter was also involved in planning projects in the Third […]
The European Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union in Budapest (1971)
In my research, I am gathering all important international conferences and meetings attended by Hungarian geographers and spatial planners in the socialist era. One of the main networks between East and West were the International Geographical […]
Contribution of Arab geography to European “discoveries”
“Finally, maritime geography was the last kind discovered during the Ottoman Empire simultaneously with European “geography discoveries.” Columbus’ journey to the New World was motivated by Arab maritime geography. Vasco da Gama used Arab cartography […]
Debating geographical determinism in the seminars of professor Sárfalvi
English “Even the fact, that the the place of seminars were substituted from rigid classrooms to professor Sárfalvi’s own room crammed full of books, changed the environment, and it was unusual that the “classes” gave floor to […]
Christaller in Hungary
This is so beautiful. On the front cover, the schematic graph-like depiction of Walter Christaller’s central places appear. This book is from 1966. The same year Christaller’s dissertation and book from 1933 was published in […]
The problem of context when quoting ideas “from out of nowhere”
A Vienna conference in hermeneutic pholosophy in 2011 got me thinking about the gap between so-called continental and analytical philosophy, because it builds up to a quite extensive and general problem, which I more-and-more frequently stumble into […]
Zoltán Ginelli 