This column aims at discovering harbours from a landscape perspective, which means extending our view beyond…
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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.
Oil in Oil (and Other Art Media): Painting the Petroleum Port
The oil industry depends on water both for the refining process and for transportation, so many…
Costa Rica: INCOP and the cruise industry
Services of cruise ships has been part of the history of the Costa Rican Institute of…
The Floating Pier. Walking on Lake Iseo
walking on Water. A timeless dream that this year, for just 16 days, more than 1,200,000…
Archipelagos and artificial islands. Global dynamics and contemporary challenges
In the processes aimed at the protection and enhancement of natural islands, as the construction of…
Universities and Ports Cities: Stumbling Block, Place Filler or Innovation Hub?
In 1911, under the aegis of Hamburg’s General Lecture system, an academic lecture hall was inaugurated…
INCOP: Port and city thanks to a law
The Costa Rican Institute of Pacific Ports (called in Spanish as INCOP), recently enrolled to RETE,…
La Cuenca del Plata. Un extenso territorio del agua, para la integración sudamericana
Durante el siglo XVI, los viajes de conquista de Juan Díaz de Solís y de Fernando…
Chronia in Crete
Chronia travels around the earth between time and space. She jumps from north to south, from…
Port-city relationships and global maritime flows in the last 120 years
Surprisingly, the analysis of port cities based on their maritime linkages is a new perspective in…
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,…