Port Architecture: Constructing the Littoral

by Peter Quartermaine and Peter Quatermaine

In the latter half of the twentieth century, the port has undergone one of the greatest and largely uncharted transformations in its history. Since the 1960s and the onset of the dominance of the passenger jet and the container carrier, ports have rapidly changed in both appearance and operation. Once an integral element of many cities' commercial activity, they have become increasingly specialised, mechanised and remote. This is often literal as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471984701
• ISBN13: 9780471984702
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.3" x 12.3"