Shipping Canals in Transition

IF 1.7 Q3 URBAN STUDIES

Urban Planning Pub Date : 2023-09-26 DOI:10.17645/up.v8i3.7619

Carola Hein, Sabine Luning, Han Meyer, Stephen J. Ramos, Paul Van de Laar

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Abstract

Shipping canals have supported maritime traffic and port development for many centuries. Radical transformations of these shipping landscapes through land reclamation, diking, and canalization were celebrated as Herculean works of progress and modernity. Today, shipping canals are the sites of increasing tension between economic growth and associated infrastructural interventions focused on the quality, sustainability, and resilience of natural systems and spatial settlement patterns. Shifting approaches to land/water relations must now be understood in longer political histories in which pre-existing alliances influence changes in infrastructure planning. On the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the New Waterway (Nieuwe Waterweg), the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus universities PortCityFutures Center hosted an international symposium in October 2022 to explore the past, present, and future of this channel that links Rotterdam to the North Sea. Symposium participants addressed issues of shipping, dredging, and planning within in the Dutch delta, and linked them to contemporary debates on the environmental, spatial, and societal conditions of shipping canals internationally. The thematic issue builds on symposium conversations, and highlights the importance of spatial, economic, and political linkages in port and urban development. These spatial approaches contribute to more dynamic, responsive strategies for shipping canals through water management and planning.

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转型中的航运运河

几个世纪以来，航运运河一直支持着海上交通和港口的发展。通过填海造地、筑堤和开凿运河，这些航运景观发生了根本性的变化，被誉为进步和现代化的艰巨工程。如今，航运运河是经济增长与相关基础设施干预之间日益紧张的场所，这些基础设施干预侧重于自然系统和空间聚落模式的质量、可持续性和弹性。现在必须在更长的政治历史中理解对土地/水关系的转变方法，其中已有的联盟影响基础设施规划的变化。在新水道(Nieuwe Waterweg) 150周年之际，莱顿-代尔夫特-伊拉斯谟大学portcity期货中心于2022年10月举办了一场国际研讨会，探讨这条连接鹿特丹和北海的水道的过去、现在和未来。研讨会参与者讨论了荷兰三角洲的航运、疏浚和规划问题，并将其与当代国际上关于航运运河的环境、空间和社会条件的辩论联系起来。专题议题以专题讨论会的对话为基础，强调了港口和城市发展中空间、经济和政治联系的重要性。这些空间方法有助于通过水管理和规划为航运运河制定更具活力和响应性的战略。

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Urban Planning URBAN STUDIES-

CiteScore

3.60

自引率

5.60%

发文量

124

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Urban Planning is a new international peer-reviewed open access journal of urban studies aimed at advancing understandings and ideas of humankind’s habitats – villages, towns, cities, megacities – in order to promote progress and quality of life. The journal brings urban science and urban planning together with other cross-disciplinary fields such as sociology, ecology, psychology, technology, politics, philosophy, geography, environmental science, economics, maths and computer science, to understand processes influencing urban forms and structures, their relations with environment and life quality, with the final aim to identify patterns towards progress and quality of life.