Mediterranean Port Cities Connectivity in Modern Times
This book studies the change in Mediterranean port cities, from the nineteenth century when they flourished as a result of international economic relations and advances in transportation technology, through the twentieth century when the nation-states were at their prime time. This trajectory with t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Cities, Heritage and Transformation
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Mediterranean, and the Port Cities in Modern Times
- Overture
- Urban Planning in a Mediterranean Port City: The contested nature of urban redevelopment in the el Raval neighborhood in Barcelona
- PART I A Mediterranean Tour d’horizon with the Port City Articles as the Ports of Call
- Alexandria: A Glorious Past, Troubled Present and a Promising Future
- Beirut
- Forever on a Tightrope: The Search for a Fragile Modernity in Travelogues, Memoirs, and Archives
- The Character of Mersin as an Eastern Mediterranean Port City
- Izmir, the Port City That Will Follow You No Matter Where You Go
- Intermezzo: A View from the Bridge of Volos Collapsing into Infinity
- Volos in the Network of Mediterranean Cities: Comparative Mapping of the City’s Spatial Evolution through the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- PART II Fragments of Connectivity
- Transnational Trajectories: From Chios to London through Alexandria, A Family Story
- City, Fathers, and Sons: Life Trajectories of Salonican Sabbatians in the Nineteenth Century
- Ex-Changing Houses in Rethymno after the Treaty of Lausanne