Fuel

Summary: "How will the world work in the post-oil, post-coal future? Writers and artists think beyond the weekly fluctuations in the price of gasoline to imagine the transition to a carbon-free future and the radical reinvention of energy that would make it possible. An architect plans "Velo-city," a network of elevated bikeways; a designer models a perfectly internalized. tail-chasing energy system; an urbanist examines the new "Oil Cities" in Dubai and Siberia; a photographer documents the social and environmental damage done in Nigeria by the oil industry; and an architect proposes that oil rigs be turned into sanctuaries for marine and avian wildlife. Reading Fuel, we read our current energy moment in the broader context of a range of possible futures."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9780262113250
ISBN: 0262113252
Physical Description: print
regular print
352 p. : ill., ports. ; 17 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge, MA ; London : MIT Press : Alphabet City Media, Inc., c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"An Alphabet City Media Book"--T.p.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / John Knechtel -- Oil Futures / Imre Szeman -- Oil Fields / Edward Burtynsky -- Tanker Crash / Robin Collyer -- Resource Fields: Gas Urbanism & Slick Cities / Mason White -- Occupying the Caspian Sea: A One Hundred Year Plan / Maya Przybylski -- Oil Rich Niger Delta / George Osodi -- Post-Carbon Highway / Geoffrey Thun and Kathy Velikov / RVTR -- Woodpiles / Vid Ingelevics -- La Bouchedu Rei / Romuald Hazoume -- Vela-City / Chris Hardwicke -- Blankety Blank / Candice Tarnowski ; Susannah Wesley -- Tar Sands / Kelly Doran -- A.I.R. / Sara Graham and Lateral Architecture -- Culobocca / Robert Kirkbride.