Port City Resilience: (Re-)Connecting Spaces, Institutions and Culture

Ports and cities and their surrounding regions coexist in a limited, shared space; today, they face multiple challenges, including climate change, energy transitions, digitization, or social transformations. These challenges require coordinated responses from all stakeholders: port authorities, city and regional governments, private and public...

Virtual Roundtable “Beirut Urban Declaration: Which Future for Beirut Port?”

Key lessons from the WaVE project and a manifesto for the future of water-linked heritage

Water and its related heritage play a very special role in cities and regions in Europe. Historic water infrastructures such as bridges, quays and riverfronts, port facilities, sluices, dams, or water mills, specific water-based urban and rural landscapes, but also intangible aspects of water-linked heritage, such as water management knowledge,...