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Costa Rica and Panama: appreciations around port city concept
Puntarenas People interested in the study of the port-cities with recently visits into Central America, particularly in Costa Rica and Panama, have found that the concept Port City is a very new one in the first, and almost unknown in ...
The Latin American port system as facilitator of territorial development
The Latin America Port System as a facilitator of territorial development The thirty-fourth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), held in August 2012, was closed with a document entitled "The State and policy in ...
The PORTA project. Ports as a Gateway for Accessing Inner Regions
The PORTA (Ports as a Gateway for Accessing Inner Regions) project brings together partners from five Mediterranean countries (FEPORTS -leader- from Spain, Port and University of Catania from Italy, Chamber of commerce & Industry of Marseille Provence from France, Piraeus ...
New York: when Sandy scans too certainties
Hurricane Sandy, who swept the north-east coast of the United States in late October 2012, was called "Storm of the Century" by observers who estimate that over the next twenty years, such events could reproduce at unprecedented scale. This disaster ...
Ariul a new city on the water. Saemangeum, South Korea
Saemangeum, on the coast of the Yellow Sea becomes the port city of Ariul, an economic and multifunctional new hub of Northeast Asia. Saemangeum will be renamed Ariul, “ari” meaning “water” and “ul” meaning “fence or base.” The name, which ...
Istanbul Seaport. Istanbul, Turkey
To the south of the Bosphorus strait, Istanbul Seaport is an ambitious mixed-use project (61.4 hectares) overlooking the Sea of Marmara, on the European side of the ancient capital of Turkey. It was designed by 5 + Design - based ...
