dc.description.abstract | The present paper focuses on the area of the Serbian capital marked off by two transnational
rivers, the Sava and the Danube and by their confluence, which determined the birth and
development of Belgrade. This area, target of radical and illegal urban transformations in the last
decade, is analysed focusing on local activist groups’ engagements and their reactions to these
dynamics. The case explored is a specific place in Belgrade: river Sava and the banks in the
vicinity of the confluence. This is a perfect example of landscape intended as a multi-layered
concept that connects natural resources, human-made elements and most important – the
people and their movements, actions, narration, emotions and relations. The paper describes
how this place has been transformed through time, in cultural, ecological and physical sense, and
it will mostly analyse the social consequences that the mentioned transformations have left on
local citizens and on the way they are reacting to that, gathered in the neighbourly, activist
groups. | sr |