Loukia Batsi In the free online course (Re)Imagining Port Cities: Understanding Space, Society and Culture, which ran between May 26 and July 7, 2021, learners…
Arie den Boer The outer harbor of Alblasserdam, a village along the Noord river in West Alblasserwaard, has long been used as a berth for inland shipping. Since…
Harry den Hartog Since the beginning of the 21st century, Shanghai has started to relocate its ports far outside the urban core to accommodate the expected…
Ugo Poletti (Editor-in-Chief of The Odessa Journal) The sea port of Odessa is one of the youngest among European ports. Odessa was founded in 1794 with the…
Sabine Luning, Carola Hein, Paul van de Laar In this blog, we recount the making of a series of small films portraying our conversations at different sites in…
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…
Nadia Alaily-Mattar Ever since the 19th century, ports have been associated with industrial activity. Ports were dirty, ugly and carried a bit of stench for…
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…
Vincent Baptist ‘Where people have fun, encounter happens. Where encounters take place, change begins. Are pleasurescapes in port cities Europe’s true driving…
