ABSTRACT
This chapter puts forward the concept of Terminal Towns as a way of thinking about towns or cities, which are also acting as transport hubs. From the etymology of the word ‘terminal’ the concept enables researchers to study places that are both to be understood as physical sites for transit, often described in a progressive sense, and as sites that at the same time are challenged along with the somehow contrasting meaning of being terminal. The chapter provides an exemplary case (Hirtshals, Denmark) and elaborates further on port cities as a special type of Terminal Towns.
