Port Cities and Globalisation

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

Biography

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.