Circular City Ports - Workbook 1, Circular initiatives in the Delta

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