PortCityFutures

Mindsets and Values, Contestation and Friction

Journal Article (2023)
Author(s)

Vincent Baptist ( Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)

Francesca Savoldi (TU Delft - History, Form & Aesthetics)

Carola Hein (TU Delft - History, Form & Aesthetics)

Research Group
History, Form & Aesthetics
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Publication Year
2023
Language
English
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Research Group
History, Form & Aesthetics
Issue number
1
Volume number
12
Pages (from-to)
125-130
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Abstract

PortCityFutures is an interdisciplinary research center, originally set up between the Dutch universities of Delft, Rotterdam, and Leiden. It focuses on the legacies, uses, and future developments of port city regions, motivated to let port and city jointly evolve again, after decades in which these entities have increasingly grown apart under industrial imperatives. As port cities are uniquely located on the edge between sea and land, they have limited space for reinventing their infrastructurally dense and culturally rich territories. Yet, the historical trajectories of port cities also comprise a persistent resilience towards change and future challenges, which can be capitalised on by (re)cultivating shared values and mindsets. [...]