Green port initiatives for a more sustainable port-city interaction: The case study of Barcelona

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Gonzalez-Aregall ◽  
Rickard Bergqvist
Keyword(s):  
Port City ◽  
Green Port

Core–Periphery Interactions in the Late and Post-Ottoman Periods: Dependency and the Uneven Development of Thessaloniki: 1870–1936

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 422-434
Author(s):  
Shai Srougo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
Port City ◽  
National State ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Central Paradigm ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
Southern Balkans

What are the reasons for the rapid economic growth of regions and their later decline? Why does the development of a certain region create under-development in another region within a national or global sphere? A central paradigm for explaining such phenomena is core–periphery relations, and the case study presented in this paper is the port city of Thessaloniki and its regressive and peripheral status within the regional (Macedonia and the Southern Balkans), national (State of Greece), and international (the capitalist world- system) spheres during two main political periods: (i) the final decades of the Ottoman regime in Macedonia (1870–1912); (ii) the first quarter of a century in which Thessaloniki integrated with Greece (1912–1936).

scholarly journals Léger Félicité Sonthonax en A Coruña: affaire monetario y conflicto diplomático franco-español (1797-1798) = Léger Félicité Sonthonax in Corunna: Monetary Affaire and Spanish-French Diplomatic Conflict (1797-98)

2020 ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Francisco Cebreiro Ares
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Diplomatic Relations ◽  
Port City ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
Historical Issues

Esta investigación detalla las vicisitudes de la comisión de la Asamblea Francesa encabezada por L.F. Sonthonax que fue detenida por la acusación de distribución de moneda falsa en el puerto gallego de A Coruña en 1797, cuando se encontraba en el viaje de retorno a Francia desde la isla de Santo Domingo. El estudio de este caso nos permite conocer los detalles de la sociabilidad urbana en torno a la moneda falsa, los mecanismos de control y ejecución de la monarquía ante tales delitos, y las formas de actuación ante un conflicto diplomático en un periodo sensible de las relaciones franco-españolas, así como algunos aspectos de la personalidad de los individuos involucrados.Abstract The aim of this research is to clarify the circumstances around the French Commission of Santo Domingo leaded by L. F. Sonthonax and arrested in the port city of Corunna (Spain) between 1797 and 1798. This case study provides information on many historical issues as urban sociability around counterfeit money, the Spanish Crown mechanisms of control, the problem-solving dynamics on Spanish-French diplomatic relations, and the character of some prominent individuals involved.

Women as Merchants in Eighteenth-Century Northern Germany: The Case of Stralsund, 1750–1830

1995 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Rabuzzi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Port City ◽  
Northern Germany ◽  
Wholesale Trade ◽  
International Commerce ◽  
Market Expansion ◽  
Economic Profile

The purpose of this paper is to bring to our attention the important role of women in wholesale international commerce in eighteenth century northern Germany, using examples from Stralsund as a case study. (Stralsund, a port-city formerly in the Hanse, was at that time the capital of Swedish Pomerania and had a population, including garrison, of some 14,000 around 1800; it was an economic center of regional importance, specializing in the production of malt and the export of grain to Sweden and Western Europe). After sketching a social and economic profile of Stralsund's female merchants ca. 1750–1830, I will discuss the crucial issue of control, i.e., to what extent and how these women were able to operate independently within a political and legal system that favored men. In my conclusion, I suggest that women left, or were forced out of, the wholesale trade around 1850 as a result of political changes and a shift in the meaning of the concept of Bürger, rather than as a result of industrialization or market expansion. Throughout, I consider whether my observations about female merchants in Stralsund have any wider validity by comparing them with research on the commerce of other ports in Northern Europe and in North America.

scholarly journals A City Profile of Malaga: The Role of the Port-City Border throughout Historical Transformations

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
María J. Andrade ◽  
João Pedro Costa ◽  
Eduardo Jiménez-Morales ◽  
Jonathan Ruiz-Jaramillo
Keyword(s):  
Local Economy ◽  
Port City ◽  
City Development ◽  
Cruise Ships ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City ◽  
Do So

The relationships Malaga has established with its port have changed over the centuries, conjuring up a variety of scenarios and circumstances. The past and present are closely linked phenomena in this case study where the porosity of the port‐city fabric has marked the city’s development and constitutes a key issue in the current and future challenges it faces. Malaga provides a particularly interesting example of a post‐industrial city that has reopened its port to its inhabitants’ acclaim while maintaining port activity. However, the growth tourism has seen in recent years has come to dominate the local economy. Cruise ships have taken on a significant role and have brought about important changes in the dynamics and flows between the port and the city, unsettling the balance between the two. This profile explores port‐city development through the lens of boundaries and flows, demonstrating how their dynamics have determined Malaga’s spatial, functional, and social development over time and how they continue to do so to this day. This article reviews the transformations the city has undergone and its future opportunities to achieve a balanced and sustainable port‐city relationship.

Study on Measures against Urban Construction of Port City Face to DPRK with Uncertain Factor - A Case Study on Ji'an City in JiLin Province

2014 ◽  
Vol 641-642 ◽  
pp. 560-563
Author(s):  
Mei Li
Keyword(s):  
North Korea ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Space Structure ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Port City ◽  
Uncertain Factor ◽  
Port Construction

According to trade development characteristics of port city between China and North Korea, the uncertain factors in economic and trade development with North Korea are analyzed in this article. Taking Ji'an city of Jilin as an example, the article analyzes the problems about city economy, urban land use, tourism development during the port construction process in Ji'an city, provides the guiding principles as "flexible plan" for construction of port city facing to North Korea, namely establishing the "321" flexible industrial layout mode, establishing elastic urban land development model with "symbiosis" philosophy, establishing "flexible space structure" of border feature land and proposing the development idea of three principles, two Expansions, one Integration for tour features.

Social Networks and Social Worlds

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-260
Author(s):  
Jared Ross Hardesty
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Port City ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Men And Women

Abstract This essay argues that the “slave community” paradigm obfuscates alternative lived experiences for enslaved men and women, especially those living in the urban areas of the early modern Atlantic world, and uses eighteenth-century Boston as a case study. A bustling Atlantic port city where slaves comprised between ten and fifteen percent of the population, Boston provides an important counterpoint. Slaves were a minority of residents, lived in households with few other people of African descent, worked with laborers from across the socio-economic spectrum, and had near constant interaction with their masters. Moreover, slavery in Boston reached its zenith before the American Revolution, meaning older, pre-revolutionary and early modern notions of social order—hierarchy, deference, and dependence—structured their society and everyday lives. These factors imbricated enslaved Bostonians in the broader society. Boston’s slaves inhabited multiple “social worlds” where they fostered a rich tapestry of relations and forms of resistance.

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