I am a PhD at the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture in the Chair of History of Architecture and Urban Planning. Coming from a legal background, my research focuses on the impact of oil companies on the development of port cities and on the creation and application of regulations linked to spatial planning, and the protection of health and the environment. My publications focus mostly on the port cities of Dunkirk in France and Rotterdam in the Netherlands as two extreme examples of oil industry’s influences and evolutions.