Title: Port City Atlas. Mapping European Port City Territories: From Understanding to Design
Published by: nai010 publishers
Release Date: 2023
Contributors: Carola Hein, Yvonne van Mil, Lucija Azman-Momirski
Genre: architecture, urbanism / építészet, urbanisztika
Pages: 322
ISBN13: 978-94-6208-742-2

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A multitude of port cities dots Europe’s coastline, all serving the purpose of facilitating maritime transportation. Over millennia, public and private leaders have built harbours, urban spaces and infrastructures in diverse territories to serve hinterlands, including landlocked capital cities and metropolitan areas. As nodes on the edge of water and land, port city territories embody knowledge on maritime flows and water conditions. At a time of climate change, they can be paradigms and stewards of sustainable development.

Taking a comprehensive, mapping based approach, Port City Atlas visualizes 100 port city territories located on four seas and connected through shared waters. It provides a foundation for comparative analysis beyond case study approaches that are often locked into national contexts, select languages or disciplinary approaches. Conceived as a work of reference, the book makes the case for a sea-based approach to the understanding and design of Europe.