In Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino famously imagined Marco Polo describing imaginary cities to Kublai Khan. Reflecting…
Carola HEIN
Professor and Head, History of Architecture and Urban Planning. Department of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. Delft, The Netherlands.
She trained in Hamburg (Diplom-Ingenieurin) and Brussels (Architecte) and earned her doctorate at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg in 1995. Among other major grants, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to pursue research on The Global Architecture of Oil and an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship to investigate large-scale urban transformation in Hamburg in international context between 1842 and 2008. Her current research interests include transmission of architectural and urban ideas along international networks, focusing specifically on port cities and the global architecture of oil. Carola Hein has authored and edited several books including The Capital of Europe. Architecture and Urban Planning for the European Union (Praeger, 2004), and has edited Port Cities: Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks London: Routledge; (with Philippe Pelletier (eds.)). Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan. London: Routledge, 2006: (with Jeffry Diefendorf, and Yorifusa Ishida (eds.)), Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. She has also published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, and magazines.
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Professional and Academic Conferences on Port Cities: Connecting Past, Present, and Future
In cities with and without major ports, from Hamburg to Lisbon, from Paris to Barcelona, from…
Temporalities of the Port, the Waterfront and the Port City
On-time delivery, rapid turnaround, commodity flows: maritime logistics is geared to speed and depends on global…
The Missing Link: Redevelopment of the Urban Waterfront as a Function of Cruise Ship Tourism
Port cities have held a key role for socio-economic and cultural development of many regions since…