2025/09/25 by Michael Goebel, Michael E. Goebel, Xinge Zhai · 1 voice
Engineering · #Maritime Ports and Logistics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s096392682510028x
openalex publication_date 2025/09/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract Summarizing the key findings of this special issue, our conclusion embeds them into the long-term history of cities extending to our present age. Some of the cities treated in our special issue have since turned into megacities marked by environmental hazards and extreme socio-economic inequalities. Their combination invites rethinking the interdependence of natural, built and social environments in urban contexts in the longue durée. Interweaving nine case-studies of cities in different world regions, our special issue demonstrates that a sustained environmental focus and the longue durée approach enriches current scholarship on port cities, and also nurtures discussion on the long-term consequences of the coastalization of the world population, thereby contributing to the fields of global and imperial history as a whole.