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...Brian T. Edwards; Driss Ksikes Abstract This essay describes a project launched by the authors in 2020 in multiple port cities. Part manifesto, part interim report, the essay advances three claims about the distinctiveness and potentialities of port cities. First, they share both positive...

... durée of their history as port cities. These histories have left an indelible imprint on the built environments of these cities as well as on their urban cultures. These cities no longer serve a nodal function in the same ways that they did in the past. Their changing forms and fortunes are marked...

..., but surrenders instead to the serial discipline of the box. The cargo container, an American innovation of the mid-1950s, transforms the space and time of port cities, and makes the globalization of manufacturing possible. The container is the very coffin of remote labor power, bearing the hid- den evidence...

... of the world. The historical facts about them are well known. Both cities were essentially created by Western colonialism in the aftermath of the Opium Wars: Shanghai as a lucrative treaty port and Hong Kong as a British colony and staging post for trade with China...

... coast. Though the waiters, servers, sommeliers, and assistants had been hired from port cities throughout Asia, South America, and the poorer countries of Europe, ethnic difference was either put on the proverbial back burner or rendered palatable. During dinner one...

... been hired from port cities throughout Asia, South America, and the poorer countries of Europe, ethnic difference was either put on the proverbial back burner or rendered palatable. During dinner one night, for example, our Romanian waiter and his Indian assistant...

....” American Sociological Review 50 : 493 -514. Portes , Alejandro , and Alex Stepick. 1993. City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami. Berkeley: University of California Press. Reiff , David . 1987. Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists, and Refugees in the New America. Boston: Little...

... colony and a free port, where accessibility is an overriding consideration that produces its own aporias. The large number of illegal immigrants in the city shows how easily the “border” with China can be breached by land and sea. The difficulty of controlling smug- gling (recently, of stolen...

...) The dialogue is hence less between a Reader and an Editor than between a Reader and a Newspaper, which becomes one of the conceptual spaces in which ideas of nationhood and self-­rule take shape and can best be discussed. Indeed, as work by Mark Ravinder Frost (2002) has shown, the port cities...

... of Massachusetts, Harbor Campus, Boston, Massachusetts 02125-3393, USA. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Gentrification of urban waterfronts in North Amer- ican port cities. RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS: "Urban Gentrification: Ideology and Practice in Middle-class Civic Activity," City and Society 1, 1, 1987...

... Remembering Benjamin books (published in Mexico City and Buenos Aires) that Franco’s censors kept Figure 2  Port Bou train out of Spanish bookstores.3 station. Photograph...

.... 311 Public Culture Explore the city’s future infra- structure. Shanghai has mod- ernized under the “three-port...

... Integration: “A City within a City” The Andromeda housing complex borders several quarters of historical signifi- cance: the Old City to the north (a.k.a. the Artists’ Colony); the flea market to the east; the Jaffa port, planned as a future...

... and Yugoslavia was not achieved until 1954, and then only under international supervision. The city of Gorizia was divided between the two countries, and the largest regional city and port, Trieste, lost its economic hinterland to the Slovenian...

... In Tijuana the “International Line” is not the border per se. Rather, la Línea refers to San Ysidro, the city’s main port of entry between Mexico and the United States, and to the area just south. It refers to the area that borders on the border, where the line forms to cross north. I have heard...

... of the Census. Portes, Alejandro, and Alex Stepick. 1993 . City on the edge: The transformation of Miami . Berkeley: University of California Press. Sassen, Saskia. 1991 . The global city: New York, London, Tokyo . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ———. 1994 . Cities in a world economy...

... as nodes in the elaborate system of treaties that were codified and elaborated by the British Empire. Even the ancient port city of Gwadar, in Pakistan, now heralded as a new center of trade and logistical access to the ocean from Central Asia, was for centuries part of Omani territory and protected...

... in the Informal Sector.” Studies in Law and Society (in press). Callaghy , Thomas M. , and John Ravehill, eds. 1993. Hemmed In: Responses to Africa's Economic Decline. New York: Columbia University Press. Castells , Manuel , and Alejandro Portes. 1989. “World Underneath: The Origins...