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All Harbour Cities at Chronoscope World | mprove design 2021
Cities at the water front define themselves by their ports with international trades over the course of centuries. Old maps can provide deep insights how the harbours have developed from the sailing era to modern container logisitics. Of course, the collection on this page is neither exhaustive nor representative –– it features only the cities with maps in the Chronoscope World.
Argentinia Australia Belgium Brazil China Colombia Cuba Denmark France Germany Ireland Italy Japan Latvia Netherlands Peru Poland Portugal Russia Schweden Spain South Africa Tunesia Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom USA Uruguay
Bonus: Suez Canal Panama Canal
Extra: Charles Minard
This can be an excellent tool for the students in our course on port cities where we try to analyze the past to I understand the present and design the future. Carola Hein
Italy
Venice (4) Kriegsschiff im Golf von Venedig 1715
Use the City bar to jump through time. Click the year or press key 1 2 3 …
Click the button or press key C to open the map table.
France
Spain
Portugal
Ireland
United Kingdom
BBC: Glasgow harbour scrollytelling /via
Belgium
Netherlands
Secret feature: Use key W to proceed (walk) to the next marker. Key Q for one step back.
Germany
A Special Section on Hamburg
- Others can explain the history of Hamburgs harbour better than me. But the use of maps for each phase seems to be unique to tell the story:
- First phase of Hambug’s harbour:
- Alster 1050 – at the Alster next to the Neue Burg ; today the Nikolai-Fleet
Second phase
- 1590 Kehrwieder and Brook’s Island; today this is the Binnenhafen
- 1651 Meanwhile the new fortification has doubled the size of Hamburg
- Third phase
- 1839 The fortification is no longer necessary and the harbour gets new docks South of Kehrwieder; today Sandthorhafen
- 1884 The former districts of Kehrwieder, Brook and Wandrahm are demolished to build the new store house area, the Speicherstadt
- 1891 The new Speicherstadt.
- Forth phase
- The harbour expands to the East and jumps to the other side of the Norder-Elbe
- 1900 More store houses are needed at Moldau-Hafen, Segelschiff-Hafen and Hansa-Hafen
- 1909 More docks and store houses at Kuhwärder Hafen and Kaiser-Wilhelm-Hafen
- 1922
- 1930
- Fifth phase
- today: 4 container terminals
- urban transformation: Grasbrock competition
Kiel (3) Hafen 1848 Kieler Föhrde 1881
Lübeck (3) Lübecker Bucht 1881
Poland
Kaliningrad: Königsberg 1763
Latvia
Russia
Schweden
Denmark
Ukraine/Crimea
Africa
Tunesia
Egypt
Suez Canal in Egypt from Suez to Port Saïd
/cf. Panama Canal
South Africa
Asia
Turkey
China
Japan
Australia
America
USA
- Birds-eye-view of Seattle and environs King County, Wash., 1891
- University Boulevard, precursor to Seattle's Montlake Boulevard, opens on June 1, 1909
- Bonus: Porto de Francisco Draco on California Island
- Bird's eye view of San Francisco 1852 | View of San Francisco's earthquake ruins taken from a balloon 1906
- Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 13 (Long Now Seminars 02018)
Los Angeles: Port of Long Beach (stop time pendulum with space bar)
New Amsterdam (2) New York (4)
Panama
Panama Canal from Pacifc Ocean to Carabean Atlantic Ocean
/cf. Suez Canal
Cuba
Colombia
Peru
Brazil
Uruguay
Argentinia
Bonus: Charles Minard
Tableaux graphiques et cartes figuratives (55 pages)
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