Horizontes portuarios: entretejiendo Simmel, Castells y Sassen con miradas futuristas en sociología urbana Introducción Introduction Las…
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Costa Rica: Coastal planning, port cities and natural resources
Costa Rica: planificación costera, ciudades portuarias y recursos naturales Costa Rica limita con dos cuerpos de…
Puntarenas, COVID-19 and “Parque el Muellero”
In Puntarenas, located on the Pacific Ocean coast of Costa Rica, an outstanding urban infrastructure project…
PROCIP: Decade One
The Integral Research Program for the Development of Port Cities (acronym in Spanish as PROCIP) celebrates…
Quepos: the pier and the city
It is night and it is hot, even the sea breeze feels hot. I’m sitting on…
Port concessions and impacts on the development of the port cities of Costa Rica
Costa Rica has little experience in concessions and public-private partnerships (PPP), especially when it is compared…
Puntarenas: re-thinking the port city
For more than a decade, I have dedicated myself to the study of port cities and,…
Puntarenas: Cruise trips and local impact of the tropical storm Nate
Costa Rica is located in a region of the world where storms and hurricanes are frequent…
Costa Rica: INCOP and the cruise industry
Services of cruise ships has been part of the history of the Costa Rican Institute of…
INCOP: Port and city thanks to a law
The Costa Rican Institute of Pacific Ports (called in Spanish as INCOP), recently enrolled to RETE,…
PROCIP: Methodological experiences for the scientific approach to the port city
When the PROCIP began to organize the maritime-port symposia in 2009, we took note on the…
Limón and the hope in ports
The city of Limon is subject to various interpretations: a natural paradise made up of green…
New neighbors in the Caribbean port cities: invasive species
They arrived by accident at the beginning of this century. They found a paradise in this…