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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.
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…
Rethinking the port landscape. Interpretations and contemporary visions
The port and industrial areas surrounding have constituted, for centuries, a penetrable environment, physically contiguous, separate…
Pique-niquer in Paris
An old tradition renews the relationship existing between Paris and her inhabitants: the social and public…
The Venice Arsenal, from forbidden city to new urban pole
A construction site in constant evolution, a space in constant transformation, since 1300. This is the…
Inter-Korean maritime flows: beyond the border?
The border between North Korea and South Korea is one of the world’s largest gaps of…
El amor al mar expresado sin palabras
A finales de 2014, Grégory Panaccione sorprendía con el dibujo y color de una novela gráfica…
Let’s walk to Europe
This column aims at discovering harbours from a landscape perspective, which means extending our view beyond…