Caya Hein Water is vital for humanity: it is a source of life, necessary for subsistence, helpful for transport, and critical in the creation of cities and…
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…
Martin Valinger Sluga & Lucija Ažman Momirski The Adriatic port city of Rijeka in Croatia was one of the European Capitals of Culture (ECoC) in 2020. In the run…
Celine Tarabay In the free online course (Re)Imagining Port Cities: Understanding Space, Society and Culture, which ran between May 26 and July 7, 2021…
Riwa Abdel Khalek After the blast in Beirut in August 2020, Lebanon’s second port city - Tripoli - quickly took over the capital’s port functions. Tripoli’s…
John Hanna Natural and man-made disasters usually come with a very high cost of lost lives, physical assets and heritage. At the same time, historically…
By Josef Konvitz, historian, authority on economic and urban governance, and former diplomat. Since 2011, Konvitz is Honorary Professor of Education at the…
Asma Mehan and Maurice Jansen On 4 th of August 2020, the Lebanese capital and port city, Beirut, was rocked by a massive explosion that has killed hundreds and…
