RC21 CONFERENCE 2013

Resourceful cities
Berlin (Germany), 29-31 August 2013
Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute for Social Science, Dept. for Urban and Regional Sociology


20. Big ships on the horizon and social and spatial fragmentation at home – port cities as emblematic places of urban transformation

Organizer: Carola Hein (a), Felicitas Hillmann (b) (a: Bryn Mawr College, b: Free University Berlin)

Session 20.1 Big ships on the horizon and social and spatial fragmentation at home – port cities as emblematic places of urban transformation

Boris Vormann (Free University Berlin)
Global Port Cities. The Spatial Logics of Postindustrial Urban Progress

Aloysius Ma. L. Cañete (a), (b) Ton van Naerssen (a: Arizona State University ,b: Radboud University)
Urban Development and Globalization:  The Case of the Cebu International Port in Central Philippines

Anne Wiese (Munich University of Technology)
The production of place at the intersection of knowledge and good flows

Shuhua Chen (University of St Andrews)
Stories from ramshackle courtyard: An anthropological study of urbanization in a port city in South China

João Pedro Nunes, Ágata Dourado Sequeira (ISCTE-IUL, University Institute of Lisbon)
«On the waterfront» The cultural and political economy of a Lisbon’s former industrial and port district

Distributed:

Laura Verdelli, Francesca Morucci (University of Tours)
Heritage, city’s (port) iconography and collective imaginary of port cities

María José Andrade (University of Malaga)
Urban transformations towards the port city

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