Circular City Ports - Workbook

02 Investigating city ports Seven key issues
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6 Today, the opportunities of the city-port, for
both city and port are not yet fully discovered
and/or developed
Crucial is to redefining the task and operational logic
of our (city-)ports.
The instruments that port authorities can develop or
deploy are limited by their current contract with the
city (or state, in the case of France). The respective
role and business-models of these ports are in that
way restricted, and new ways of taking the lead for
furthering circularity requires new collaboration and
agreements between port and city and other authorities.
For example,: land-management is steered by a
business-model that tends to opt for maximization
of land-use and profit deriving from it. This is in conflict
with a required flexibility in order to react and
provide space for circular initiatives. The added value
of (allocating) new economies should also be a
factor in making the choice
What should be the tasks of our ports? How is this
reflected in their contract with the city? The city
should think in the same way the port is, and vice
versa: how do we make the city better making the
port better and vice versa? How do circular principles
form the basis of rewriting such a covenant?
How can we form a common agenda between
city and port and make their exchange and interrelation
ongoing?
How can we form a common agenda between
city and port, and what is the role of circularity herein?
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City