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Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast - Ralph Bramel Lloyd and the Shaping of the Urban West (Hardcover)
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Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast - Ralph Bramel Lloyd and the Shaping of the Urban West (Hardcover)
Series: Energy and Society
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Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast tells the story of oilman
Ralph Bramel Lloyd, a small business owner who drove the
development of one of America's largest oil fields. Lloyd invested
his petroleum earnings in commercial real estate-much of it
centered around automobiles and the fuel they require-in several
western cities, notably Portland, Oregon. Putting the history of
extractive industry in dialogue with the history of urban
development, Michael R. Adamson shows how energy is woven into the
fabric of modern life, and how the "energy capital" of Los Angeles
exerted far-flung influence in the US West. A contribution to the
relatively understudied history of small businesses in the United
States, Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast explores issues
of interest to multiple audiences, such as the competition for
influence over urban development waged among local growth machines
and outside corporate interests; the urban rivalries of a region;
the importance of public capital in mobilizing the commercial real
estate sector during the Great Depression and World War II; and the
relationships among owners, architects, and contractors in the
execution of commercial building projects.
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