Coastal cities are distinctively shaped by both, borders and connectivity, land and sea. They are mediators between these sides. Following the assumption that urbanisation, globalisation and the Anthropocene created new categories and paradigms of borders, the panel seeks to shed light on the question how the sea is perceived, narrated, and mediated in coastal towns and cities since Early Modern Times. Thus, categories of center and periphery, stability and transformation, the global and the planetary, and security and insecurity are called into question. The border theme will therefore be examined in terms of liminal spaces in the sense of a land-sea relationship to negotiate how boundaries of coastal towns and cities are shaped, imagined, and mediated.
PROGRAMME (Panel on Thursday, 5 September)
Thursday, 5 September
11 am – 5.30 pm
Stephanie Hanke (Firenze)
On the border between land and water: moles as polyfunctional spaces of Early Modern harbour cities
Michael Dudzik (Prague)
Opening up to the world. Naval engineers and the reconstruction of the port of Bordeaux (1730–1755)
Alexei Kraikovski (Padua)
Controlling the uncontrollable: Maritime metropolises of terrestrial Empires in Modern Europe. St. Petersburg and Trieste in comparative perspective
Michael Falser (Munich)
From Swakopmund to Tsingtau and Apia. German Colonial Port-City Landscapes in Africa, Asia and Oceania as Global Spaces of Translation.
Esin Bölükbaş Dayi (Çiplakli)
“Water and Urban Morphology: Antalya’s Multifaceted Relationship with the Sea and Beyond”
Kehao Chen (Shanghai)
Sea, Sand Fence and Salt Squatter: The Historical Evolution of Coastal Urban-Rural Morphological Differentiation in Sha Tau Kok Area under Border Conditions
Brigitte Le Normand (Maastricht)
Whose city, whose sea? Multiscalar negotiations in the development of Rijeka, socialist Yugoslavia’s port city
Vassilis Kitsos (Greifswald)
Fraim Baltic Ports to Baltic Urban Waterfronts
Sascha Roesler (Mendrisio)
“The Psychology of Water”. Epistemologies of Prediction and Speculation in View of Rising Seas