Carola Hein, Tianchen Dai, Dan Baciu Words construct realities. Through words, people communicate sensory experiences, feelings, beliefs, and theories. The way…
Thomas van den Brink Port cities have a certain ambience, a culture that makes them different from other cities. This is embedded in tangible elements like…
By Josef Konvitz, historian, authority on economic and urban governance, and former diplomat. Since 2011, Konvitz is Honorary Professor of Education at the…
Winnie Goldsteen This blog post is a synthesis of the Master thesis of Architecture Student Winnie Goldsteen (TU Delft). She has used the theoretical framework…
Carola Hein This blog post was first written for PORTUS, the online magazine of RETE From the 1850s onward, petroleum took the world by storm. Following…
Didem Yerli Cosmopolitanism derives from the ancient Greek words for citizen of the world. The concept gained its modern sense during the socio-economical…
Pietro Spirito, former President of the Port Authority of Mar Tirreno Centrale The function of ports and port cities has radically changed in the late twentieth…
Lukas Höller “This blog post is a synthesis of the Master thesis of Architecture Student Lukas Höller (TU Delft). His research uses design to mediate between…
ICOMOS, acronym of International Council on Monuments and Sites, is an international non-governmental organisation of heritage professionals engaged in the…
Maurice Jansen Many ports in the world are pivots of social dilemmas, such as coastal protection versus port expansion, attractive urban housing versus port…