Ports have been and continue to be critical in not just the
global movement of goods, but also the global movement of ideas,
social change, and cultural phenomena, including architecture and
urban form. The connected points of a multi-faceted network, ports
profoundly affect both each other and the cities and regions to
which they belong. Shipping and trade networks have created a
legacy embodied in the street patterns, land use and buildings of
interconnected port cities. Multiple forces are at play:
technological requirements, elite preferences and working class
needs, urban policy and globalization.
Port Cities brings together original scholarship by both
well-published and younger scholars from multiple disciplines and
builds upon long-standing research on the international exchange of
architectural and planning ideas. A carefully selected series of
essays examines comprehensively and globally the changing built and
urban environment of selected port cities. They explore
similarities, dissimilarities, and how sea-based networking has
influenced urban landscapes and architecture, socio-economic and
cultural development from the 19th to the 21st centuries.
The first section examines global networks linking ports and
cities and explores the effect of inter-continental transfers on
architecture and planning. The second part focuses on
interconnected port cities in regional contexts, analyzing
socio-economic structures and urban and built form. The third
section examines the built environment of selected cities in view
of their response to changing technology, transforming
socio-economic networks and political contexts, as well as evolving
design concepts. Overall, the book proposes a networked analysis of
the built and urban environment, arguing that international
maritime networks are paradigmatic for the creation of dynamic,
multi-scaled, and interconnected "port cityscapes."
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