Re-centering the Port in the Port City Territory

Abstract

Although often seen as periperal, ports have long played a key role in important transitions. Technological innovation, economic transformation, epidemics and social change have travelled through global networks and have left their imprint on ports and nearby cities and territories. Ports are spaces where solutions and answers to transitions have been developed and implemented first. Exploring transitions and their key actors in the past, present and future can illuminate contemporary challenges and offer approaches to capacity building that are much needed to facilitate contemporary change in and around ports. The four articles in this issue tackle the theme of transitions in port city territories over time.