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 ...

Entre la costa del Pacífico y la cordillera de los Andes, Chile tiene uno de sus sitios más atractivos, la Ciudad Puerto de Valparaíso, declarada el 2 de Julio de 2003 como Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Organización de ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...