Energy capitals : local impact, global influence /
"Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully influence economies and politics today. As Energy Capitals demonstrates, the discovery and exploitation of fossil fuels has proven to be a mixed blessing in many of the cities and regions where it has...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Penn. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2014.
©2014 |
| Series: | History of the urban environment.
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Table of Contents:
- Blessed by fossil fuels? Pittsburgh, Houston, Louisiana, and Los Angeles. Pittsburgh as an energy capital : perspectives on coal and natural gas transitions and the environment / Joel A. Tarr and Karen Clay ; The energy capital of the world? Oil-led development in twentieth-century Houston / Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt ; Making a lemon out of lemonade : Louisiana's petrochemical corridor / Craig E. Colten ; Los Angeles, the energy capital of Southern California / Sarah S. Elkind
- Distant yet central? Perth, Calgary, and Stavanger. Scoping Perth as an energy capital / Jenny Gregory ; At arm's length : energy and the construction of a peripheral petrometropolis / Matthew N. Eisler ; Oil shocks in an oil city : the view from Stavanger, Norway, 1973-2008 / Gunnar Nerheim
- Cursed by oil? Tampico and Port-Gentil. Tampico, Mexico : the rise and decline of an energy metropolis / Myrna Santiago ; Port-Gentil : from forestry capital to energy capital / Douglas A. Yates
- Conclusion : comparative perspectives on energy capitals.