Port Town: How the People of Long Beach Built, Defended, and Profited from Their Harbor, tells how the Port of Long Beach rose from a marshy mud flat to become

As the material anchors of globalization, North America’s global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how econo

Charting the evolution of the port cities of Atlantic Spain and Portugal over four centuries, this book examines the often dynamic interaction between the large

This volume brings together ten original papers on the population dynamics and development of Western European port cities. In a substantial overview chapter La

Scholars from multiple disciplines explore similarities, dissimilarities and the ways in which sea-based networking influences urban landscapes and architecture