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Ports, Islands and Maritime Connectivity: A Power Perspective Godfrey Baldacchino

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Page 1: Ports, Islands and Maritime Connectivity: A Power Perspective · 2018. 2. 14. · Title 'Ports, Islands and Maritime Connectivity': A Power Perspective The airplane has become the

Ports, Islands and Maritime  Connectivity: A Power Perspective

Godfrey Baldacchino

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The drive to connect….

and the rise and fall of transport paradigms

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Port Cities: Centres

of Trade and Commerce

Dynamos of Inter‐Cultural Exchange

Manhattan

Singapore

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Maritime Infrastructure on (Small) IslandsNo Economies of Scale

Less Choice / More Expensive / Less Regular /  Multiple Insularity

Monopoly Bottlenecks (cargo handling, transport,  other services)

Palma de  Mallorca,  Spain

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Coast Use Conflict (tourism, residence,  industry, fishing, recreation)

Heraklion, Crete

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Mytilini, Lesvos

Another kind of ‘cargo’

at the port

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Creeping Urbanisation

Valletta, Malta

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Corfu Town, Corfu

Capital city, port city, administrative centre, military base,  centre for transport/transit of travellers, commerce and 

cargo, educational and intellectual HUB.

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Port City versus ‘The Rest’

ENTREPOT WILDERNESS

LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE

URBAN RURAL

GLOBAL NATIONALIST

IRREDENTIST PROTECTIONIST

Political Minority Political Majority

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Challenges

• Taking the Port City Ethos beyond the City• Switching to Cleaner Energy Practices

• Adding Value to Tangible Products• Shifting to Knowledge Rich Industries

• Improving Global‐to‐Local Connectivities

Who benefits?

Who loses?

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Ports, Islands and Maritime  Connectivity: A Power Perspective

Godfrey Baldacchino