Landscape Architecture in Serbia. To read the original text go to: http://www.asla.org/ppn/Article.aspx?id=34376 one part of the text is in DIRT. ASLA: http://dirt.asla.org/2012/01/31/landscape-architects-can-help-heal-serbia/ by Nevenka Milic Chavez & Maja Todorović Izquierdo Serbia is a land of great natural beauty—mountains, canyons, caves, gorges, and primeval forests that have been torn apart for centuries by war. Povlen Mountain, Serbia. Image courtesy Uroš Petrović. The land has been cultivated for more than seven thousand years. Around 5,300 BC, the people of the Lepen Whirl culture began to expand from Djerdap, the biggest gorge in Europe, domesticating animals, and starting to farm. Fields expanded, towns became cities that included small parks, and during the middle ages, defensive castles and religious monasteries created walled gardens for aromatic and ...
