Introduction. Exploring port cities of culture and events -- Bridging port-city relationships, urban regeneration and mega events -- Waterfront redevelopment and the rationale for hosting mega events -- Port cities and event-led regeneration in ontologically-insecure times -- The spatiality of...

Focusing on cultural mapping, this paper aims to highlight different approaches to cultural planning, considered here as a strategic tool1. The cultural plan has become popular in large cities as an innovative instrument not only in terms of culture, but for urban development as a whole....

Is there an evolution, a sequence of different steps achieving the culturally based approach to urban renewal and local development? By an analysis of literature and some study-cases, it seems there are four moments of this path. The first one is well represented by Soho ‘renaissance’: a...