Print Email Facebook Twitter In the Minds of People Title In the Minds of People: Port-City Perspectives, The Case of Rotterdam Author Harteveld, Maurice (TU Delft Urban Design) Date 2021 Abstract Following the geographical ‘Any-Port Model’, urban design has stipulated and enforced the disunion of port and city over the recent decades. In conjunction with other disciplines, the emphasis has laid at dislocation of production activities in favor of logistic-productive dynamics. At the same time, professional focus was on the urban areas where most citizens are. While this practice has led to redevelopment of abandoned harbor areas too, foremost the approach stimulated stronger physical boundaries between lived city and the remaining and new harbor areas. This article describes the application of the dominant model in Rotterdam over the recent decades, on the base of literature review, and, it confronts this with the concepts of Rotterdam which are in the minds of professionals-in-training, through method of ‘mental mapping’. On the one hand, mainly harbor areas are memorized when respondents are asked to draw the port-city of Rotterdam, even though its efficient port infrastructure makes public space in these areas rare, and most harbors are located behind inaccessible borders. On the other hand, civic areas, which have a refined network of public spaces and are places for daily life, reveal also all kinds of tangible and intangible signs and symbols related to characteristics of the port-city when memorized; even more. Various elements, linked to water-land or the flows of goods, people, and ideas, dominate the minds of the people when they think of Rotterdam in general. These outcomes reconfirm the unique unity of port and city and provide a way to find an alternative or supplementary model accepting the complex nature of port-cities. Subject Public spacepublic spacePublic Spaceimage of the citymental mapPort-citiesRotterdamarchitectureurban designenvironmental psychologyHuman geographyCultural anthropologyurban development To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4c76c144-534d-4be3-a233-f31457abe340 DOI https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/12380 ISSN 2612-0496 Source European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes (CPCL), 4 (2), 60-81 Bibliographical note Vol. 4 No. 2 (2021): Port City Cultures, Values, or Maritime Mindsets, Part 2: Studying and Shaping Cultures in Port City Territories / Main Section Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2021 Maurice Harteveld Files PDF Harteveld_Maurice_2021_In ... terdam.pdf 1.99 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:4c76c144-534d-4be3-a233-f31457abe340/datastream/OBJ/view