The capital city (II): Secondary Capital Cities
Following the thread of the previous post “The capital city: A model to articulate the State“, we highlighted the importance of choosing a city as...
The capital city (I): a model to articulate the State
Tokyo, Paris, London, Berlin, Damascus, Rome, Athens, New Delhi, Madrid … These are some of the most emblematic cities in the world. Their influence goes...
The Sykes-Picot agreement: One line to rule the Middle East
Since the end of the Ottoman Empire in 1922 after the First World War, the Middle East has not stopped bleeding. When the Empire was...
The Atlantropa project and the vision of a different future
In this blog we have already talked about some environmental disasters caused by the lack of planning, such as the drying up of the Aral...
The importance of Alaska: The Seward’s fridge
With a harsh climate, locally humid in the vicinity of the Pacific Ocean, and generally cold, we will find Alaska. This territory is one of...
If Westeros were Europe: Game of Thrones
In relation to Game of Thrones through the maps, I found this map of the European continent that locates all the kingdoms, tribes and civilizations...
Game of Thrones through the maps
*First of all, I would like to clarify that you will not find spoilers about Game of Thrones in this post, since it is not...
A-68: The new antarctic iceberg
On July 12, 2017, a giant block of ice was definitely separated from one of the ice shelves that make up the Antarctic coast. This...
The lie of Mercator and his projection
How many times have we stopped before a map to stare at the most hidden corners, or to verify how far we were in our...
The digital divide: a connected world?
Nowadays, everybody is conscious about the importance of being connected in this communication network called The Internet, and there is no day without we use...