This book provides an up to date overview of Mediterranean port cities and their challenges in a ‘liquid’ world. It interrogates emerging cultural narratives of these places, new morphological approaches to understand their transformation, and the global pressures and local dynamics that shape them.
The volume provides a compendium of themes and an actionable research agenda to explore twenty-first century port cities, their changing culture and transformation, against the complexities and existential challenges of the Mediterranean region. It does so by embracing the seismic changes and uncertainty of our current times.
The book is addressed to scholars and students engaging with port city studies from a wide range of disciplines including urban planning, human geography, urban sociology, maritime anthropology, cultural policy, maritime and naval history.
This book provides an up to date overview of Mediterranean port cities and their challenges in a ‘liquid’ world. It interrogates emerging cultural narratives of these places, new morphological approaches to understand their transformation, and the global pressures and local dynamics that shape them.
0. Introduction: The Mediterranean In 'Liquid' Times Part
1. Cultural
Narratives Of Mediterranean Port Cities
1. Marseilles As A Port City In Jean
Claude Izzo's Crime Novels
2. Re-Establishing Centrality To Communities'
Narratives: The Case Of Reliving Bighi Through Communities' Stories
3. The
Impact Of French Maritime Activities On The Historic Port Landscape Of Bejaïa
(Ex Bougie)
4. Harbouring Identities In A Port Town: Migration And Culture In
Marsa, Malta Part
2. Morphological Approaches To The Study Of Mediterranean
Port Cities
5. A Fortified Historic Port: Exploring The Intersection Between
Urban Geomorphology, Street Morphology And Touristic Land Use Of Valletta,
Senglea And Vittoriosa In The Grand Harbour Of Malta
6. Greenterfaz: The
Ecological Reconnection Of Málaga's Port And City
7. Beyond Separation, A
Synergy: The Development Of The Barcelona Port Part
3. Global Pressures And
Local Dynamics In The Contemporary Mediterranean
8. Liquid Infrastructures,
Solid Spatialities: How Large-Scale Infrastructural Projects Are Reshaping
The Port Of Trieste
9. Becoming Smart. Projects And Projections Of Digital
Transformations In Marseilles' Port Spaces
10. Antalya As A Preferred
Destination For Residential Settlement And Visiting
11. Conclusions.
Embracing Fluidity Through An Engaged Research Agenda For Mediterranean Port
Cities
Wendy Jo Mifsud is a Senior Lecturer in spatial planning with a varied academic and professional background. She completed her undergraduate degree in Architecture and Civil Engineering, and went on to gain postgraduate qualifications in Sustainable Heritage and Geographic Information Science. She has since worked within the Maltese Planning Authority, and following several years of casual lecturing, joined the University of Malta as a full-time lecturer. This has led to her participation in various research projects as well as in the local environmental NGO Dawra Madwarna. Wendy is the current President of the Catholic Cultural Heritage Commission and is a member of the Malta Chamber of Planners and the Malta Chamber of Architects.
Enrico Tommarchi is Lecturer in Urban Planning at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee (UK). He is a spatial planner by training (IUAV University of Venice, Italy), and holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Anthropology (University of Hull, UK). He is an academic with expertise in port and coastal towns and cities, port-city relationships, waterfront redevelopment, cultural and sporting mega events, and culture-led urban regeneration. He has conducted research in the UK, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands. He has worked at the Culture, Place and Policy Institute (CPPI) of the University of Hull, and at London South Bank University. He is a member of the Port City Futures Research Network.
