Oil Spaces - Exploring the Global Petroleumscape

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.

List of contents

1. Space, Time, and Oil: The Global Petroleumscape  PART I: Oil, Agency, and Territoriality  2. The Original North American Petroleumscape: Oil-and-Gas Empire, Petrochemical Nation  3. Petroleumscape as Battleground: Pladjoe, Pearl in the Crown of the Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij (BPM/Shell) in the Dutch East Indies  4. Mapping the Persian Gulf Petroleumscape: The Production of Territory, Territoriality, and Sovereignty  5. Between Visible and Invisible: Eni and the Building of the African Petroleumscape  6. The Offshore Petroleumscape: Grids, Gods, and Giants of the North Sea  PART II: Oil, Materiality, and Cultural Practices  7. Arab Oil Towns as Petro-Histories  8. Building Brazil’s Petroleumscape on Land and Sea: Infrastructure, Expertise, and Technology  9. Precious Property: Water and Oil in Twentieth-Century Kuwait  10. Dimensions of the Petroleumscape in the Port and the City of Hamburg  11. “Production First, Livelihood Second”: The Life and Death of Worker-Peasant Model Villages in a Chinese Oil Field  PART III: Oil Ecologies and Imaginaries  12. Energy Humanities and the Petroleumscape  13. Antwerp’s Petroleumscape: Imagining the Carbon Age  14. Power Stations and Petroleum Heritage in Italy: The Case of Porto Tolle  15. Petroleumscape as Heritage Landscape: The Case of the Dunkirk Port City Region

About the author

Carola Hein is professor of history of architecture and urban planning at Delft University of Technology. Her authored and (co-) edited books include Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage (2019), The Routledge Handbook of Planning History (2018), Port Cities (2011), Cities, Autonomy and Decentralisation in Japan (2006), The Capital of Europe (2004), and Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945 (2003).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Carola Hein
• Assisted by: Carola Hein (Editor), Hein Carola (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.2021
• EAN: 9780367417512
• ISBN: 978-0-367-41751-2
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Petroleum, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Fossil Fuels, environmental science, engineering & technology, Urban & municipal planning, Energy technology & engineering, Human Geography, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Energy technology and engineering, Petroleum & oil industries, Petroleum, oil and gas industries