Circular City Ports - Workbook
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01 Exploratory trajectory Research methodology<br />
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The trajectory was based around a benchmarking<br />
of 11 city ports in the Delta. Herein, we focused on<br />
the actors and the system as entry point. In this way<br />
we could keep a broad perspective in the reading of<br />
‘city ports’, which are not easily depicted one-sidedly.<br />
The idea was, by first looking at the actors and<br />
their systemic functioning, to translate this knowledge<br />
towards relevant spatial ideas afterwards.<br />
The trajectory started with a desktop research, enriched<br />
with a series of interviews to encompass the<br />
young initiatives not visible via the web and to have<br />
a better insight in the working of some initiatives.<br />
This research formed the input for three working<br />
sessions and resulted in different materials:<br />
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A series of fiches of circular initiatives: each<br />
fiche is a descriptive compilation of: what happens<br />
here, what are the ambitions, who is behind<br />
it, what is the relation to the city and port?<br />
A comparative analysis, both descriptive and by<br />
mapping the city ports: are they a sea or inland<br />
city port, to which extent can recent history of<br />
the city port explain the current strategies they<br />
deploy, what are the economic dynamics and<br />
geographical context they operate within?<br />
Bottlenecks and leverages city ports encounter<br />
in the furthering of circularity: both at the level<br />
of planning economic activities and at the level<br />
of organizing the governance necessary to support<br />
this change<br />
Some possible recommendations to further circularity<br />
in city ports, by focusing on the framework<br />
and on the programming.