Lecture 2. Oil city: towards a transnational urbanism

Oil cities have been established throughout the 20th century, as a transnational model with similar spatial characteristics throughout the world in which the political and economic background associated with the culture of oil, hierarchy and engineering sectorization is evident. The capitalist dynamics of oil exploitation lead to extraordinary changes in the population, the local economy and the organization of the urban-regional space where oil fields are discovered. This conference will critically address how oil exploitation processes contribute to a spatial development model characterized by fragmentation, privatization and urban segregation. Spaces for employees of the oil industry (including offshore platforms) will be addressed: housing and health, leisure, commerce, etc. with the intention of pointing out the new capitalist logics of territorial occupation: urban, rural or even in protected territories.


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