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.
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