CNR IRISS has been invited to contribute to the “Port City Futures Conference”, be held at Rotterdam and Delft, The Netherlands, from 17th to 19th December.

The conference, organized by prof. Carola Hein (Delft University of Technology) and Maurice Janssen (Erasmus Centre for Urban, Port and Transport Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam), is dedicated to the manifold relations between cities and ports.

Historically, ports and cities have engaged with major transformations in interconnected ways – ways that will continue to play a role in the future.

A strong port city culture can help to resolve spatial development questions generated by contemporary urgencies, such as the energy transition, climate change, new technologies, transformations of work conditions so that the port and city (and region) can jointly evolve in a limited space.

To test this hypothesis and to develop a long-term research agenda, the conference brings together port, city and regional stakeholders and academics from various port-cities to compare their experience with Rotterdam one.

It aims to stimulate/facilitate discussions between participants on port city relationships by looking at the past and learning from it, identifying contemporary problems and creating future opportunities, identifying and connecting and involving main stakeholders identifying specific different political, economic, social, cultural settings.

Massimo Clemente and Eleonora Giovene di Girasole, researchers in the CNR IRISS, present their researches and participate in the discussion for contemporary challenges, future scenarios and main research questions on port city futures.

Resources

• Preliminary schedule and further information on registration to the conference