Heritage Words: Exploring Port City Terms

Tianchen Dai; Carola Hein; Dan Baciu

doi:10.6092/issn.2612-0496/12149

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Tianchen Dai Technical University Delft

Tianchen Dai worked as a visiting researcher from November 2016 to November 2018 and a postdoctoral researcher from March 2020 to November 2021 at Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft Technical University, The Netherlands. Her specific research interests lie in the spatial narration of urban landscapes, and its impact on the formation of mindset, city image, and behavioural intentions, especially in port cities. She is now a Tenure Track Associate Professor in School of Design, East China Normal University in Shanghai, China.
Carola Hein Architecture and the Built Environment, Technische Universiteit Delft

Carola Hein is Professor and Head, History of Architecture and Urban Planning Chair at Delft University of Technology. She has published widely in the field of architectural, urban and planning history and has tied historical analysis to contemporary development. Her books include: The Urbanisation of the Sea (2020), Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage: Past, Present and Future (2019), The Routledge Planning History Handbook (2018), Uzō Nishiyama, Reflections on Urban, Regional and National Space (2017), History, Urbanism, Resilience (2016), Port Cities (2011), Brussels: Perspectives on a European Capital (2007), European Brussels. (2006), The Capital of Europe (2004), Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945 (2003), and Cities, Autonomy and Decentralisation in Japan. (2006), Hauptstadt Berlin 1957–58 (1991).
Dan Baciu Architecture and the Built Environment, Technische Universiteit Delft https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0043-5616

Dan C. Baciu, Assistant Professor in Architecture and the Built Environment, Technische Universiteit Delft, leverages the historical sciences, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analyses to understand what factors are relevant in shaping diverse and sustainable futures.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/12149

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Port City Culture, Port Heritage, Outstanding Universal Value, Heritage Word

Abstract

The “port-city heritage” has recently gained more scholarly and professional attention. Yet, many questions remain in terms of terminology, characteristics, constituents or applicability of such a group of heritage objects. Understanding and defining the port city terms is crucial as it is intimately connected to what citizens and institutions deem valuable and choose to preserve. This article serves as the first step towards developing a shared vocabulary, as the foundation for a better understanding of specific values or identities inherent in port cities. In the world heritage list, we identified 107 sites related to port city. By decoding and analyzing the short abstracts of these sites with a systematic approach, we tried to understand how UNESCO conceptualize port-city heritage, how UNESCO acknowledge the value of port-city heritage sites, what the problematic issues are in this conceptualization and why, and how the historical urban landscape approach can contextualize the sites in larger networks and flows. Findings indicate the port-city heritage conceptualized by UNESCO is focused very much on local contexts, and of OUV that are mostly related to the military, trading and colonial practices. We argue such limited vision on the valuing of port-city heritage impair the understanding of complex linkages between nature and culture, one port-city and another, global and local values, and after all the systematic thinking of port-city-region as a networked entity.

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