Maritime transport is a key factor in the globalisation process where port cities play an essential role as edges of economic, technological, cultural, and institutional diffusion. Global supply chains depend on a complex network of port cities and are thus representative elements of economic structural shifts at national and regional levels.
This book explores the role of port cities as global actors since the end of the Second World War. It focuses on the morphological evolution of port cities, their economic functions, and cultural heritages. This volume incorporates case studies from regions around the world and analyses the differences and common features related to the global integration process. This edited collection offers a range of methodological approaches prepared by academics specialised in geography, history, economics, and urban planning.
Port Cities and Globalisation will be directly relevant to a wide variety of scholars and postgraduate researchers in the fields of transport studies and management, maritime logistics, port economics, as well as urban planning, regional development, and human geography.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: A Geohistory of the World's Port Cities (Daniel Castillo Hidalgo and César Ducruet) 2. Port-City Evolution in the Long Run (1880-2020): Global and Regional Trends (César Ducruet and Bárbara Polo-Martín) 3. From the Taylor-Fordist Port Model to the Global Port Model: The Case of Western Europe in the 1950s and 1960s (Bruno Marnot) 4. Navigating Port-City Relations: Three Case Studies from Spain (Lourdes Trujillo, Andrea Rodríguez, Fernando González-Laxe and Javier Campos) 5. Port and the City: Hints from Some Italian Cases (Fabio Cremaschini, Claudio Ferrari and Alessio Tei) 6. Containerisation in Antwerp and Rotterdam between 1966 and 2024: Impacts on the Regional Urban and Logistical Fabric (Theo Notteboom) 7. Ports and Cities of the Former Soviet Union: Impact and Geopolitical Change (Arnaud Serry and Pierre Thorez) 8. Local and Global Drivers of Maritime Economics: Port Cities of West Africa (Daniel Castillo Hidalgo, Ayodeji Olukoju and Paola Marrero Rodríguez) 9. The South African Port System Then and Now: A Tale of Historical and Modern Port Cities in Proximity (Jacques Charlier) 10. Oil vs Container: The Changing Tides of Port-City Dynamics in the Middle East (Mina Akhavan and Michael Rodrigues) 11. The Port System in South Asia: Moving Away from Path Dependency (1950-2024) (Atiya Habeeb Kidwai) 12. Dynamics of Shipping Networks and Port Cities in East and Southeast Asia (Kenmei Tsubota, Hidekazu Itoh and Ryuichi Shibasaki) 13. A Study on the Functional Types and Life Cycle of Port Cities Along the Maritime Silk Road (Liehui Wang, Mingxuan Gao and Yan Zhu) 14. Port Performance and Industry in North Korea’s Major Cities (In Joo Yoon, Stanislas Roussin and César Ducruet) 15. The Persistence of Urban Ports: The Case of Montreal and Halifax, Canada (Brian Slack and Robert J. McCalla) 16. In a Tight Spot: North American Port Cities in Global Supply Chains (Jean-Paul Rodrigue) 17. The Evolution of the Australasian Shipping Network from 1950 to 2020 (Maneerat Kanrak and Jing´en Zhou) 18. The Container Revolution in the Ports of Southeastern Brazil (Santos, Rio De Janeiro and Vitória, 1963-1993) (Luiz Cláudio Moisés Ribeiro, Thiago V. Mantuano da Fonseca and Bruno Bortolotto do Carmo) 19. Three Argentinean Overseas Ports Facing Global Changes: Rosario, Bahía Blanca, And La Plata in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century (Miguel Ángel de Marco, Gustavo Chalier and Santiago Prieto)
About the Author :
Daniel Castillo Hidalgo is Associate Professor at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. He serves on the Spanish Economic History Association board and researches African seaport development, dock labour, and port communities, and co-edited several maritime economics volumes.
César Ducruet is a geographer and Research Director for CNRS at Paris-Nanterre University and Principal Investigator of the MAGNETICS research project. He specialises in network analysis, ports, and shipping networks, having published over 50 peer-reviewed articles and edited three transport analysis books.
