Lecture 8. Destruction and Containerization

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Carola Hein, Tino Mager


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Port Cities Between Global Networks and Local Transformations

The World Wars have had a major impact on ports and port cities. Their destruction and reconstruction demonstrates the resilience of these cities. It was followed shortly thereafter by containerization, which changed ports, cities, their architecture and infrastructure extensively. Formerly lively sailor districts were soon abandoned and housing districts disappeared. The changes reached far into the hinterland of the cities as throughput and infrastructure construction became most important and new typologies such as logistics centers emerged. With containerization came a huge transformation of port cities. Enormous warehouse districts stood empty waiting for new uses. Sites of lecture 8: Rotterdam Barcelona London Cape Town Adelaide

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