Port Cities: Cluster of Risks or Example for Anticipation?

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S.J. Hauser History, Form & Aesthetics - Architecture and the Built Environment
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History, Form & Aesthetics (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
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Published Date

04-03-2021

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English

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Architecture and the Built Environment

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Architecture

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History, Form & Aesthetics

Abstract

The explosion in the port of Beirut in 2020 showed that ports are clusters of risks, and that accidents in port areas can have disastrous effects on close-by residential areas or historic city centers. Such disasters are not new, and cities and nations have had time to establish special safety regulations and prevent such disasters. Because authorities implemented these rules in reaction to incidents rather than planning to prevent and enforcing existing rules, however, more disasters ensued. The evolution of industrial techniques and scales often overran the ability of law-makers to adapt rules and anticipate to industrial innovations.

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