Portus 26 – November 2013
LIGHTHOUSE index

Limon port (CR): social struggles in the definition of the port city
Costa Rica lives today (November 11, 2013) a strong social tension in its most important port (Puerto Limon). Limon port has been closed: cruises have had to eliminate its visit to Costa Rica and cargo ships have waiting long hours ...

Africa: port fever against crisis?
Africa is today the continent where the pace of urbanization is the fastest, while remaining the least urbanized in the world [1]. Some large cities (Casablanca, Lagos, Cape Town, Dakar, Abidjan...) are also major ports, but many intermediate cities, they ...

WaRe. The Waterfront Regeneration Project
In many cases, the redeveloped waterfront acts as a driver for the re-launch of the entire economy of a city, often re-locating it in an international context. For this reason, many cities, even of a small and medium size, are ...

The Arctic landscape machine
This column aims at investigating harbours in a landscape perspective, which means extending our view beyond the delimited harbour area towards the surrounding landscape of which the harbour is a constitutive part. Let us look at an extreme location on ...

Cuando el faro es el protagonista
Los faros fueron concebidos para ayudar a los navegantes, dándoles la confianza de que su luz les indicaría el camino correcto en su travesía. Son torres altas situadas en la frontera entre la tierra y el mar, expuestas a las ...

The Dark Side of the Port
In every seaside city, fishermen’s families have always thought out to prepare main courses using leftovers from unsold fishing (fish of scarce quality, fish way to small to be sold or too heterogeneous, crustacean and mollusks caught in the fishing ...