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• Title:The petropolis of tomorrow / [edited by] Neeraj Bhatia, Mary Casper.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Bhatia, Neeraj, 1980- editor.
  Casper, Mary, editor.
  
• Published/Created:[Houston, Texas] : Actar Publishers ; Architecture at Rice, [2013]
  New York, NY : Actar D
  ©2013
  

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  • Call Number: NA9031 .P449 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:City planning.
  Petroleum industry and trade.
  Urban ecology (Sociology)
  
• Medical Subjects: Cities
  
• Description:569 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Architecture at Rice University ; 47.
  
• Summary:"The Petropolis of Tomorrow is a design and research project, originally undertaken at Rice University that examines the relationship between resource extraction and urban development in order to extract new templates for sustainable urbanism. Organized into three sections: Archipelago Urbanism, Harvesting Urbanism, and Logistical Urbanism, which consist of theoretical, technical, and photo articles as well as design proposals, The Petropolis of Tomorrow elucidates not only a vision for water-based urbanism of the floating frontier city, it also speculates on new methodologies for integrating infrastructure, landscape, urbanism and architecture within the larger spheres of economics, politics, and culture that implicate these disciplines."-- Publisher's website.
  "In recent years, Brazil has discovered vast quantities of petroleum deep within its territorial waters, inciting the construction of a series of cities along its coast and in the ocean. We could term these developments as Petropolises, or cities formed from resource extraction. The Petropolis of Tomorrow is a design and research project, originally undertaken at Rice University that examines the relationship between resource extraction and urban development in order to extract new templates for sustainable urbanism. Organized into three sections: Archipelago Urbanism, Harvesting Urbanism, and Logistical Urbanism, which consist of theoretical, technical, and photo articles as well as design proposals, The Petropolis of Tomorrow elucidates not only a vision for water-based urbanism of the floating frontier city, it also speculates on new methodologies for integrating infrastructure, landscape, urbanism and architecture within the larger spheres of economics, politics, and culture that implicate these disciplines."-- Amazon.com (viewed August 4, 2015).
  
• Notes:Explores the future of the interface between the petroleum industry and its infrastructure and ecology and human habitation.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9780989331784
  0989331784
  
• Contents:Foreword : Alternative post-oil cities / Felipe Correa
  Introduction : Floating frontiers / Neeraj Bhatia ; Distant frontier / Farès el-Dahdah & Alida C. Metcalf
  Observations : The true cost of oil / Garth Lenz
  Positions : Archipelago urbanism : The Chagos Archipelago / Rafico Ruiz ; Archipelago, from metaphor to geography / Mason White ; The island organism : Hilberseimer in Rockford / Albert Pope ; On land, at sea: formalizing public edges in the archipelago / Mary Casper ; Islandness / Luis Callejas
  Project : Cidade do arquipélago / Alex Gregor, Joshua Herzstein, Libo Li, Laura Williams
  Observations : Oil rocks / Alex Webb
  Positions : Harvesting urbanism : The expansion of the extractive territory / Rania Ghosn ; Rigged ecologies / Geoff Manaugh ; Pesqueiro / Juliana Moura & Bárbara Loureiro ; Re-rigging: transborder logics across the bounded site / Maya Przybylski ; Harvesting urbanism through territorial logistics / Neeraj Bhatia
  Project : Cidade de Deriva / Joanna Luo, Weijia Song, Alex Yuen
  Observations : Petropolis / Peter Mettler
  Positions : Logistical urbanism : Index of landscape typology easement / Brian Davis ; On-demand urbanism / Clare Lyster ; City apps / Koen Olthuis ; Between water and oil : the logistical petroleumscape / Carola Hein
  Project : Cidade recorrente / Bomin Park, Peter Stone
  Appendix : L.O.G.: Living offshore guide
  Afterword / Sarah Whiting.