92 Oil City: Petro-landscapes and Sustainable Futures
‘The secret of great wealth with no obvious source is some forgotten crime, forgotten because it was done neatly.’ Honore de Balzac Houston is popularly known as ‘the oil city’. It has siblings bearing the same name in the great oil-producing regions of the world: Baku, Kirkuk, Luanda, Fort McMurray...
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| Summary: | ‘The secret of great wealth with no obvious source is some forgotten crime, forgotten because it was done neatly.’ Honore de Balzac Houston is popularly known as ‘the oil city’. It has siblings bearing the same name in the great oil-producing regions of the world: Baku, Kirkuk, Luanda, Fort McMurray, Midland-Odessa and Murmansk. Some cities carry the appellation because they are the hubs of corporate power in |
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