TY - JOUR

T1 - St. Petersburg Port through Disasters

T2 - Challenges and Resilience

AU - Назаренко, Кирилл Борисович

AU - Смирнова, Мария Александровна

PY - 2021/3

Y1 - 2021/3

N2 - Port cities are useful sites for thinking about resilience, as their location at the junction of sea, river, and railway routes is of prime importance to traders, governments, and other actors: these cities are rapidly redeveloped after disasters and create extensive measures to withstand such shocks in the future. This article concerns the main challenges facing the St. Petersburg port and city and how they were resolved from its origin in 1703 to date. It first tracks the city’s resilience from the age of sail, when it was a port for trade, through the age of steam, when the port infrastructure completely changed as it was transferred from the historic center of the city to its outskirts. The second part of the article examines how St. Petersburg withstood specific challenges, both natural and man-made: ice, floods, shallowing, fires, and wars.

AB - Port cities are useful sites for thinking about resilience, as their location at the junction of sea, river, and railway routes is of prime importance to traders, governments, and other actors: these cities are rapidly redeveloped after disasters and create extensive measures to withstand such shocks in the future. This article concerns the main challenges facing the St. Petersburg port and city and how they were resolved from its origin in 1703 to date. It first tracks the city’s resilience from the age of sail, when it was a port for trade, through the age of steam, when the port infrastructure completely changed as it was transferred from the historic center of the city to its outskirts. The second part of the article examines how St. Petersburg withstood specific challenges, both natural and man-made: ice, floods, shallowing, fires, and wars.

KW - disaster

KW - port cities

KW - rebuilding

KW - resilience

KW - St. Petersburg

KW - urban planning

KW - St

KW - Petersburg

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85077168234&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144219877864

DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144219877864

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85077168234

VL - 47

SP - 272

EP - 292

JO - Journal of Urban History

JF - Journal of Urban History

SN - 0096-1442

IS - 2

M1 - 0096144219877864

ER -