Paul van de Laar & Peter Scholten Turkish dock worker with a colleague at Multi-Terminals (1980), Robert de Hartogh, Rotterdam. A superdiverse city The first…
Hilde Sennema On January 30th, 2023, a small basalt pillar was placed on Plein 1953, a square in one of the post-war neighborhoods of Rotterdam. The pillar is…
Martine van Lier Maritime heritage is part of our oldest heritage. It is a reflection of historic innovation and has been key to the growth of port cities…
Tianchen Dai, Carola Hein In July 2021, the world lost and gained a heritage site connected to a port city. The 44th session of the World Heritage Committee…
Saskia Tideman The stories we tell about past events are unavoidably biased. Political or ideological agendas drive the selection process determining which…
Saskia Tideman As in many port-cities, the history of Hull, a medium-sized port-city in East Riding Yorkshire, England, is that of an endless struggle to keep…
Hilde Sennema Port city functions and cultural maritime heritage are often at odds. Culture is a difficult and sometimes contested concept in the scholarly…
Carola Hein To address challenges of climate change and sea-level rise that will particularly affect port cities and regions, PortCityFutures aims to inform…
Asma Mehan, Hilde Sennema & Saskia Tideman As hubs of global exchange, port cities are host to inconvenient and contested pasts. Many of these pasts have yet to…
