Portus 32 – December 2016
LIGHTHOUSE index

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 people have been able to experience. The Floating Piers is the evocative title of the installation that, from 18 June to 3 July this ...

Chronia in Crete
Chronia travels around the earth between time and space. She jumps from north to south, from east to west, from nowhere to everywhere, searching places, people and cultures on the coasts and bays of this world. [as_tejus_mu_carousel id=7] ...

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 urban and transport studies. The World Seastems [1] project tackled this challenge by assembling 120 years of urban population and maritime traffic data for ...

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 new islands and artificial structures in the sea waters, are fundamental the geopolitical factor, the territorial sovereignty and the norms that regulate its use ...