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Abstract
This article makes explicit why, at first, we do not usually think beyond water, docks, cargo, moving loads, and ships when we think of port-cities. By reviewing mental maps of port-city Rotterdam drawn by professionals in training, it becomes clear that the adjective ‘port’ modifies the meaning of ‘city’ in such an extent that this echoes in the mind. It does exceptionally when respondents are asked explicitly to draw the ‘port-city’ by mind. Port and city seem to have become conceptual dichotomies. In the case of Rotterdam, the established professional points of views seem to be aligned with this disunion, even though the current trend in practice turns towards a desire to (re)develop the port-city as one. Through similar mental mapping experiments on Rotterdam, yet without adding the label of ‘port-city’ in the question, much richer images of the port-city of Rotterdam are generated. Multi-scalar reviews of such maps help to explicate much more inherited relations between nature and artifice, as well as for example the flows of goods and people. Ultimately, this approach changes the perspectives on the port-city, also for professionals in practice.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Portus (online) |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 42 |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- Public space
- public space
- Public Space
- image of the city
- mental map
- Port-cities
- Rotterdam
- architecture
- urban design
- environmental psychology
- Human geography
- Cultural anthropology
- urban development
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Mental Maps & The Image of Port-Cities
M.G.A.D. Harteveld (Speaker)
3 Dec 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference