Beyond the Port City: The Condition of Portuality and the Threshold’s Field

Beatrice Moretti

Published by JOVIS 2021

Beyond the Port City

The Condition of Portuality and the Threshold’s Field

Beatrice Moretti

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783868599503

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Portuality is a concept that has long been rooted in several urban centers. It denotes a territorial quality specific to those cities and developed through strong relationships with their own port. Beyond the Port City recognizes portuality as a specific condition and suggests that the urban-port threshold could emerge as one major symbolic field of exploration. This unique threshold materializes along the margin between the two authorities, namely in that space where the city and the port are side by side. It is marked by an administrative boundary that becomes an accumulator of transit: a fragmented space where the juxtapositions take sufficient shape to acquire a dimension and to be recognizable.

This book updates the old city-port dichotomy and outlines a new vision in which the port city is a forma urbis affected by the speed of changing processes and influenced by the factors that are embodied in its territorial palimpsest.

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Beatrice Moretti

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Abstract, Contribution, and Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
FOREWORD: Oltre. Metabolisms at the City/Port Border Carmen Andriani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
THE PORT CITY Infrastructure, Landscape, Borderscape Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
PORTUALITY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
THRESHOLD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
BEYOND THE PORT CITY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
AFTERWORD Designing Thresholds in the Port Cityscapes Carola Hein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
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Language: English
Publisher: JOVIS
Pages
- Main content: 216
Illustrations
- Other: 32 farb. und s/w Abb.
Keywords: fragmentierter Raum; Stadt-Hafen-Dichotomie; Stadtplanung; territoriales Palimpsest; Hafenstadt; Portuality

eBook

Published: March 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783868599503

Paperback

Published: August 26, 2020
ISBN: 9783868596137