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Heritage Words: Exploring Port-city Terms

Heritage Words: Exploring Port-city Terms

Carola Hein, Tianchen Dai, Dan Baciu Words construct realities. Through words, people...

Mapping Maritime Mindsets: Deep Maps from Inspiration to Feasibility

Mapping Maritime Mindsets: Deep Maps from Inspiration to Feasibility

Thomas van den Brink Port cities have a certain ambience, a culture that makes them...

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Port Cities and Crisis: Reflections on What COVID-19 Revealed

By Josef Konvitz, historian, authority on economic and urban governance, and former...

The Role of Port City Images in the Development of Maritime Mental Maps

The Role of Port City Images in the Development of Maritime Mental Maps

Winnie Goldsteen This blog post is a synthesis of the Master thesis of Architecture...

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Oil in Oil (and Other Art Media): Painting the Petroleum Port

Carola Hein This blog post was first written for PORTUS, the online magazine of RETE From...

Why does the History of Port Cities Matter? The case of Fin-de-siècle Salonica

Why does the History of Port Cities Matter? The case of Fin-de-siècle Salonica

Didem Yerli Cosmopolitanism derives from the ancient Greek words for citizen of the world...

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The COVID-19 pandemic: an opportunity for a European policy within the Mediterranean area?

Pietro Spirito, former President of the Port Authority of Mar Tirreno Centrale The...

Designing for climate change in port cities: the case of Kirkenes (Norway)

Designing for climate change in port cities: the case of Kirkenes (Norway)

Lukas Höller “This blog post is a synthesis of the Master thesis of Architecture Student...

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Water and Heritage: Explained

ICOMOS, acronym of International Council on Monuments and Sites, is an international non...

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Taking Sustainable Port Development Seriously: Serious Gaming in the Port of Rotterdam

Maurice Jansen Many ports in the world are pivots of social dilemmas, such as coastal...