Maurice Jansen and Yueyue Zhang In 2019, Rotterdam and Shanghai celebrated 40 years of sister city relationships. Both cities have drastically changed during…
Renée Rotmans (Port of Rotterdam Authority) The Rotterdam port region is Europe’s largest port and industrial complex. As a facilitator for import and export…
New stop of our world tour in Rotterdam. Raphaël Languillon-Aussel, Senior Research Officer at L a Fabrique de la Cité, talks to Carola Hein, professor at Delft…
Maurice Harteveld Imagine: You are asked to draw a port city from memory. What would you put on paper? Do you think of harbours? Water, docks, cargo, moving…
This blog post was written for the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus magazine June 2020 Port cities are a particular type of territory and are often long-standing examples…
Maurice Jansen Rotterdam-Zuid, a district that has grown near and along with the port of Rotterdam on the South side of the River Maas, is lacking behind in…
A contribution to the European Ports in Transition series Author(s): Carola Hein, Paul van de Laar Book: European Port Cities in Transition Pages 265-286 ISBN…
Sarah Sannen Rotterdam is a major port city of The Netherlands, with a colourful history of trade, war and immigration. As the port of Rotterdam, the biggest…
Amanda Brandellero & Maurice Jansen The COVID-19 outbreak constitutes an unanticipated resilience test for our cities and societies. Resilience encapsulates the…
