Portus 39 – May 2020
LIGHTHOUSE index
Puntarenas, COVID-19 and “Parque el Muellero”
In Puntarenas, located on the Pacific Ocean coast of Costa Rica, an outstanding urban infrastructure project was recently inaugurated: the "Parque del Muellero". It was built to strengthen the development of the city's waterfront, and to link the cruise industry ...
Playing the Port
Ports are key nodes in the global flow of goods and people, but the way they function; the role they play for the neighboring city and region; and their environmental, economic, social and even cultural impact are not widely known ...
The remote and exclusive taste of border port cities
Port cities with exclusive, symbiotic and intense karmic bond with its own harbour can be counted on the fingers one hand … and Hirtshals is one of these. The brand-new city – born in 1919 – was founded on the ...
Fluctuart, the first street art museum floats on the river Seine
A floating museum on the Seine: Fluctuart, the only structure of its kind in the world, floats since May 2019 on the waters of the river of the Ville Lumière. Anchored at the mooring of Les Invalides in the 7th ...