PORTUALITY XXI Logistics Landscapes and Active Heritage of the Urban-Port Dynamic Threshold

Portuality’ is a concept rooted in some urban centres from the very beginning. A 'territorial condition' or 'quality' which specifically denotes those cities born and developed through strong historic/symbolic and economic/functional relationships with its own port. So, ‘portuality’ is a 'landscape requirement', a 'constitutive specificity' of some territories. According to this approach, it is possible to update the old dichotomy city-port outlining a new vision in which the port city is a 'forma urbis in progress', a composite, plural, and open figure affected by the speed of changing processes and influenced by the many factors that every day are embodied in its territorial palimpsest.