Oil Spaces : Exploring the Global Petroleumscape
Hein, Carola
Oil Spaces : Exploring the Global Petroleumscape - Taylor & Francis 2022 - 1 electronic resource (300 p.)
Open Access
Oil Spaces traces petroleum’s impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not visible or recognized. Over the past century and a half, industrially drilled petroleum has powered factories, built cities, and sustained nation-states. It has fueled ways of life and visions of progress, modernity, and disaster. In detailed international case studies, the contributors consider petroleum’s role in the built environment and the imagination. They study how petroleum and its infrastructure have served as a source of military conflict and political and economic power, inspiring efforts to create territories and reshape geographies and national boundaries. The authors trace ruptures and continuities between colonial and postcolonial frameworks, in locations as diverse as Sumatra, northeast China, Brazil, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Kuwait as well as heritage sites including former power stations in Italy and the port of Dunkirk, once a prime gateway through which petroleum entered Europe. By revealing petroleum’s role in organizing and imagining space globally, this book takes up a key task in imagining the possibilities of a post-oil future. It will be invaluable reading to scholars and students of architectural and urban history, planning, and geography of sustainable urban environments.
Creative Commons
English
9780367816049 9781000449488 9780367417499 9780367417512 9780367816049
10.4324/9780367816049 doi
Urban & municipal planning
Fossil fuel technologies
Human geography
Globalization
Urban communities
Urban economics
City & town planning - architectural aspects
Environmental science, engineering & technology
Petroleum technology
Urban and municipal planning Fossil fuel technologies Human geography Globalization Urban communities Urban economics City and town planning: architectural aspects Environmental science, engineering and technology Petroleum technology
Oil Spaces : Exploring the Global Petroleumscape - Taylor & Francis 2022 - 1 electronic resource (300 p.)
Open Access
Oil Spaces traces petroleum’s impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not visible or recognized. Over the past century and a half, industrially drilled petroleum has powered factories, built cities, and sustained nation-states. It has fueled ways of life and visions of progress, modernity, and disaster. In detailed international case studies, the contributors consider petroleum’s role in the built environment and the imagination. They study how petroleum and its infrastructure have served as a source of military conflict and political and economic power, inspiring efforts to create territories and reshape geographies and national boundaries. The authors trace ruptures and continuities between colonial and postcolonial frameworks, in locations as diverse as Sumatra, northeast China, Brazil, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Kuwait as well as heritage sites including former power stations in Italy and the port of Dunkirk, once a prime gateway through which petroleum entered Europe. By revealing petroleum’s role in organizing and imagining space globally, this book takes up a key task in imagining the possibilities of a post-oil future. It will be invaluable reading to scholars and students of architectural and urban history, planning, and geography of sustainable urban environments.
Creative Commons
English
9780367816049 9781000449488 9780367417499 9780367417512 9780367816049
10.4324/9780367816049 doi
Urban & municipal planning
Fossil fuel technologies
Human geography
Globalization
Urban communities
Urban economics
City & town planning - architectural aspects
Environmental science, engineering & technology
Petroleum technology
Urban and municipal planning Fossil fuel technologies Human geography Globalization Urban communities Urban economics City and town planning: architectural aspects Environmental science, engineering and technology Petroleum technology