Abhatoo - Centre Nationale de Documentation

The evolution of the relationship between the city and the port has always been a topical subject, inspiring various speakers considering the plethora of fields of interaction offered by this discipline. Several authors in different disciples have proposed studies emphasizing this relationship, in terms of change of urban landscape, morphology of ports and spatial dissociation between port function and urban space. Following this logic comes our communication article where, through an exploratory quality study we have proposed a conceptual model mobilizing two key concepts from the literature, “maritime transport” and “spatial planning” in order to detect the logic behind the port-city relationship. To this end, most of the 22 respondents belonging to port stakeholders approved during the semi-structured interviews the existence of this relationship in the Moroccan context.