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A metageography of port-city relationships

César Ducruet

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This chapter is an empirical attempt to identify the nature and regional dimension of port-city relationships on a world scale. Although general processes of such relationships can be identified in the literature, regional variations are still not well understood when dealing with the insertion of port cities in the global transport chain. An analysis of a world sample is proposed using simple characteristics such as geographical coordinates, urban population, logistic activities, port infrastructures, maritime traffic and transport connections. Factors of port hierarchy, land/sea, port/city, and logistic/intermodal oppositions create north-south and east-west patterns. An equilibrate insertion between different functions or networks gives a sustainable position to some port cities within the transport chain. Finally, this chapter serves as an experimental complement to the study of world regionalisation and global-local processes

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halshs-00458067 , version 1 (19-02-2010)

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César Ducruet. A metageography of port-city relationships. Ashgate. Ports, cities, and global supply chains, Ashgate, pp.157-172, 2007, Transport and mobility. ⟨halshs-00458067⟩
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