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Analyzing the Petroleumscape of Rotterdam
Petroleum – its extraction, refining, transformation, and consumption – has shaped our built environment in visible…
Caland Against the Tides: The Turbulent History of the New Waterway
A simple plan for a complicated problem When the idea for a new waterway from the…
Rotterdam Port and its Innovation Roadmap
Port generations Beginning as a first generation cargo port, the Port of Rotterdam has developed through…
Energy Transition and the Port of Rotterdam. A Disruptive Circular Economy Opportunity?
History intertwined with fossils Rotterdam was the world’s busiest port from 1962 to 2004 [1], growing…
Making the Future Port City in Rotterdam’s Makers District
The Rotterdam Makers District extends to the west and south of Rotterdam city center, divided by…
Nurturing Talent in the Port City of Rotterdam
Rotterdam’s education system has the wind in its sails, but at the same time it’s all…
Rotterdam Underground: In-Depth History, Present and Future
Urban Undergrounds The history of Rotterdam is marked by spatial expansion. Its initial location was on…
Envisioning the Port of Rotterdam in a 100% Circular Economy
The port of Rotterdam – whose freight throughput of about 470 million tonnes places it among…
Driving Force for Cross-Border Collaboration: Positioning Port-City Regions in the Eurodelta
The Eurodelta is a densely urbanised megaregion with approximately 45 million inhabitants. It is an area…
Archipelago of Knowledge. A Diffuse Campus
The Archipelago of Knowledge is a new spatial strategy for the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands,…
Images of Port-City Rotterdam, Through the Mental Mapping Methods
Imagine: You are asked to draw a port-city from memory. What would you put on paper?…
Representations of a World in Flux: The Port of Rotterdam in Fin-de-Siècle Postcards
Why do old postcards matter for the understanding of port cities such as Rotterdam? Old postcards,…
Port(s) of Rotterdam
I present here a small selection from my on-going photographic project about the Port(s) of Rotterdam…
Economic impact of (maritime) heritage in the revitalization of waterfront areas
From 2012 until 2017 building volumes in the Netherlands collapsed due to the worldwide economic crisis.…