Paesaggi Logistici e Infrastrutture Portuali di Confine. La nascita della Città del Cluster

Neither only city nor only port, the port city is the result of a relationship in which global characters have over time combined with local factors generating a unique organism. During the twentieth century, the city-port bond has been altered making it controversial to de ne its nature and direct its development. In contemporary ports, one of the most interesting phenomena is the port clusterization process that unite several ports into a single entity called cluster whose formation brings to the front themes such as logistics and virtual trade mechanisms. The clusterization process gives rise to a new and polycentric conurbation recognizable as the City of the Cluster: composed of multiple ports and cities, it highlights a latent potential that orients the transformation project. In this eld, it is the heritage of disused architectures of the city- port border that acquires importance as a strategic system in which the city, extended along the coast and inland, becomes landscape.