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Blue Paper #12: Blue History - A Research Agenda

Gaetano Di Tommaso and Dario Fazzi In the last few years, the humanities experienced a...

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People, ports and power: the zine as method

Francesca Savoldi Historically, port cities are not only places of trade and connection...

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Odessa: The Forbidden Dream Of Russia

Ugo Poletti Ever since the unprovoked invasion of Russia in Ukraine, the port city of...

Banner image: The spreading mosaic of Free Zones in Dubai. Source: Akhavan 2020, p.93.

Dubai Free-Port Surging: Urbanizing the Sand into a Mosaic of Free-Trade Zones

Banner image: The spreading mosaic of Free Zones in Dubai. Source: Akhavan 2020, p.93...

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Designing Porous Borders and Revealing Heritage: The Waterfront di Levante Project in Genoa

Beatrice Moretti After Genoa’s intense urban transformation at the turn of the 1990s and...

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Mariupol, a port city unprotected under siege

This blog was originally posted on Medium by Maurice Jansen. The port city of Mariupol –...

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History & Cross Domain: Designing Public Spaces for Maritime Mindsets

Next week we will start our new LDE-MSc elective course in Delft Designing Public Spaces...

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Professor Carola Hein appointed in Leiden and Rotterdam: 'Making new connections for a sustainable future'

Carola Hein, Professor of History of Architecture and Urban Planning TU Delft, has been...

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Mapping pleasure: Finding entertainment places in the port city of Hamburg, 1910-1935

Laurenz Gottstein and Alina L. Just People around the world know Hamburg for its port, but...

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Global vs Local: How Will We Live Together?

Maurice Jansen Port cities and water cultures around the world draw increasingly more...