De aanleg van de Nieuwe Waterweg zwengelde de groei van de Rotterdamse haven aan. Tussen 1870 en 1900 werd de bevolking van de stad 2,5 keer zo groot, van 121…
LDE PortCityFutures is looking for a Student Assistant! PortCityFutures is a Leiden-Delft-Erasmus universities’ initiative that investigates the evolving socio…
Merten Nefs Trade infrastructure and logistical activities have long been a source of prosperity as well as nuisance. Important trade hubs, such as Rotterdam…
Arkar Phyo In the free online course (Re)Imagining Port Cities: Understanding Space, Society and Culture , which ran between May 26 and July 7, 2021, learners…
Nancy Couling While researching urbanisation processes unfolding in the North Sea, architect Nancy Couling, Marie Curie Research Fellow at TU Delft 2017-19…
Gaetano Di Tommaso and Dario Fazzi In the last few years, the humanities experienced a “blue” turn. As an effort to think critically about the role of water in…
Francesca Savoldi Historically, port cities are not only places of trade and connection, but also of friction and conflict.Working on her research project…
Ugo Poletti Ever since the unprovoked invasion of Russia in Ukraine, the port city of Odessa has remained relatively unharmed. Yet, argues Ugo Poletti, editor…
Banner image: The spreading mosaic of Free Zones in Dubai. Source: Akhavan 2020, p.93. Mina Akhavan Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di…
Beatrice Moretti After Genoa’s intense urban transformation at the turn of the 1990s and 2000s, the Italian port city has experienced a long slowdown in urban…
