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- English
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The Petropolis of Tomorrow
About this book
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. Contributions: Oriol Bohigas, Arnold Reijdorp and Casanova+Hernandez
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Table of contents
- INTRODUCTION
- Distant Frontier
- The True Cost of Oil
- ARCHIPELAGO URBANISM
- The Chagos Archipelago
- Archipelago, From Metaphor to Geography
- The Island Organism: Hiberseimer in Rockford
- On Land, At Sea: Formalizing Public Edges in the Archipelago
- Islandness
- Cidade Do Arquipelago
- Oil Rocks
- HARVESTING URBANISM
- The Expansion of the Extractive Territory
- Rigged Ecologies
- Pesqueiro
- Re-Rigging: Transborder Logics Across the Bounded Site
- Harvesting Urbanism: Through Territorial Logistics
- Cidade De Deriva
- Petropolis
- LOGISTICAL URBANISM
- Index of Landscape Typology Easements
- On-Demand Urbanism
- City Apps
- Between Water and Oil: The Logistical Petroleumscape
- Cidade Recorrente
- APPENDIX AND CREDITS: L.O.G: Living Offshore Guide
- Afterword