Port Cities within Port Regions

Shaping Complex Urban Environments in Gdańsk Bay, Poland

Bibliographic Data

ID22017994
AuthorsKarolina Krośnicka (0000-0002-7844-8572, Gdańsk University of Technology), Piotr Lorens (0000-0003-4245-1021, Gdańsk University of Technology), Eliza Michałowska (Gdańsk University of Technology)
Year2021
Volume6
Issue3
Pages27-42
Publication date2021-07-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Planning (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635
PublisherCogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT)
DOI10.17645/up.v6i3.4183
OpenAlexW3186341193
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited18

Port cities located within various metropolitan or functional regions face very different development scenarios. This applies not only to entire municipalities but also to particular areas that play important roles in urban development—including ports as well as their specialized parts. This refers also to the various types of maritime industries, including the processing of goods, logistics operations, shipbuilding, or ship repairing, to name just a few. Since each of these activities is associated with a different location, any transformation process that creates changes in geographic borders or flows will dynamically affect the port cityscape. Municipalities may evolve in different directions, becoming ‘major maritime hubs,’ ‘secondary service centers,’ ‘specialized waterfront cities,’ or just distressed urban areas. Within each metropolitan area, one can find several cities evolving in one of the above-mentioned directions, which results in the creation of a specific regional mosaic of various types of port cities. These create specific ‘port regions’ with specific roles assigned to each of these and shape the new (regional) dimension of the geography of borders and flows. As a result, these port regions are created as porous structures where space is discontinuous. To further develop the issue of the creation and evolution of port regions, the authors present the case study of the Gdańsk Bay port region. This study in particular allowed for the development of both the theoretical background of this phenomenon and the presentation of a real-life example

Business · Cityscape · Economic geography · Geography · Metropolitan area · Regional science · Transport engineering · Computer Science · Cruise Tourism Development and Management · Engineering · Maritime Ports and Logistics · Urban and Freight Transport Logistics

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