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Even though one of the drivers of development in today\u2019s port cities continues to be the transfer of knowledge and experiences between different cases, not all these cities have achieved their goals, nor have all done so in a sustainable way. This article exposes a new methodology, motivated by the need to carry out a comparative study of good practices of port\u2013city integration for twelve specific cases. To enable a comparison of intangible realities such as port\u2013city integration, it is mandatory to have a common benchmark to quantify features of cities from different cases. The 3DPortCityMeasure methodology is intended to provide a framework for analysing port-city integration, with results that supply an immediate understanding of each case. This tool enables direct comparative evaluation and provides support for land use planning and urban design approaches. The results show that the proposed approach for measuring intangible factors in the field of the port\u2013city relationship is a very useful tool, novel in this discipline, and fully applicable to other cases and other urban issues.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/su12030880","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,1,24]],"date-time":"2020-01-24T11:01:00Z","timestamp":1579863660000},"page":"880","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["3DPortCityMeasure: Methodology for the Comparative Study of Good Practices in Port\u2013City Integration"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6104-6569","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mar\u00eda J.","family":"Andrade","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento Arte y Arquitectura, Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad de M\u00e1laga, Plaza El Ejido, 2, 29013 M\u00e1laga, Spain"},{"name":"CIAUD, Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua S\u00e1 Nogueira, P\u00f3lo Universit\u00e1rio do Alto da Ajuda, 1349-063 Lisboa, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6069-7052","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jo\u00e3o Pedro","family":"Costa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CIAUD, Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua S\u00e1 Nogueira, P\u00f3lo Universit\u00e1rio do Alto da Ajuda, 1349-063 Lisboa, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Jos\u00e9","family":"Blasco L\u00f3pez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Avda. de la Aurora, 15, 29002 M\u00e1laga, Spain"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,1,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Baudouin, T., and Collin, M. 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