Surprisingly, the analysis of port cities based on their maritime linkages is a new perspective in…
Lighthouse
LIGHTHOUSE
This section emphasizes on the one hand the more physical aspects of projects or plans, already completed or under construction on each and every continent, in the field of the relationship between Port and City and the urban regeneration of Waterfront. The other hand it provides perspectives on the complex reality of the port cities within specific disciplines and in a trasversal way, addressing the multiple aspects that the presence of ports entails in different regional contexts, with particular regard to the cultural, material and immaterial expressions, in the broadest sense and with the intend to underline the relevance, modernity and significance of these themes in contemporary society.
This could be Rotterdam or anywhere
This could be Rotterdam … on your first date with Hollandse nieuwe, the herrings caught in…
Navegar a la búsqueda de la identidad en “El puerto prohibido”
Una de las novelas gráficas más destacadas del 2015 y 2016 es sin duda “El puerto…
Unexpected port cities on the Swedish coast
This column aims at discovering harbours from a landscape perspective, which means extending our view beyond…
Chronia in Lisboa
Chronia travels around the earth between time and space. She jumps from north to south, from…
Archipelagos and artificial islands. Manage the present, imagine the future
The particular coastal configuration, the isolation often only apparent, the intertwining of different geographical origin cultures,…
Livorno, the Port Center for a new port-city integration
“Livorno is an example of how integration and cultural contamination could reach levels of excellence and…
Harbour landscapes as incubators of the next economy
This column aims at discovering harbours from a landscape perspective, which means extending our view beyond…
Writing Port Cities
In Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino famously imagined Marco Polo describing imaginary cities to Kublai Khan. Reflecting…
La invención del barco, es la invención del naufragio
“La invención del barco, es la invención del naufragio“. El casual encuentro con esta frase, nombre…
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…
Chronia in Sardinia
Chronia travels around the earth between time and space. She jumps from north to south, from…