Franco Bianchini

is Professor of Cultural Policy and Planning, School of Cultural Studies and Humanities, Leeds Metropolitan University.

Articles

Sulukule

Porous cities

On four European ports

Walter Benjamin’s description of Naples as a “porous city” absorbent of heterogeneity applies equally to other harbour cities, write Jude Bloomfield and Franco Bianchini. On cultural hybridity, economies of informality and strategies of creativity in four European ports.