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Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.3828/TPR.2012.17
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-02-2014
Publisher: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Date: 23-06-2014
DOI: 10.7202/1025699AR
Abstract: In the 1950s and 1960s modernist town planning reordered countless cities through urban renewal and freeway-building projects. Applying rational planning expertise generated emotional responses that often lingered long after redevelopment occurred. This article considers the emotional response to urban renewal in two cities advised by the British town planner Gordon Stephenson. In Perth, Australia, Stephenson was amongst a group of experts who planned a freeway that obliterated part of the valued river environment and threatened a historic structure. In Halifax, Stephenson prepared the initial scientific study used to justify dismantling part of the downtown and a historic black community on the urban fringe. While the Perth case generated an explosion of emotional intensity that failed to prevent environmental despoliation but saved some heritage assets, the Halifax ex le initiated a lingering emotional dispute involving allegations of neglect and racism. Comparing cases resulting from the activities of a noted practitioner illustrates differing emotional trajectories produced in the wake of the modernist planning project.
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Date: 02-12-2016
DOI: 10.1144/SP442.33
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.3828/TPR.2012.15
Publisher: History of the Earth Sciences Society
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.17704/1944-6178-36.1.41
Abstract: About four centuries passed between the first appearance of p hlets in which the medical uses of petroleum were discussed (for ex le, the Tegernsee (southern Bavaria, 1430), Geneva (Swiss Confederacy, 1480), Nurnberg (northern Bavaria, 1500), and the Antwerp (Duchy of Brabant, today Flanders, 1540–1550) p hlets), and Michael Faraday's discovery in 1825 of the chemical composition of benzene derived from bituminous oil as a compound of carbon and hydrogen. During this long time span, studies of oil, carried out between alchemy and chemistry, benefited from rapid advances and brilliant insights, much as they had moments of stagnation, and disappointing regressions. In 1855 the chemist Benjamin Silliman Jr., of Yale University, proved that crude oil could be decomposed through a process of fractional distillation into a range of fuels and lubricants cheaper than the oils, greases and waxes rendered by animal fats and vegetal matter (Silliman 1855 Forbes 1948 Forbes 1958). In the course of the early 1860s, oil became the main source of illumination first in North America, then in Europe and Australia. This transformation of oil from a substance of limited use into a commodity of mass consumption radically changed the pattern of oil finding and production. Crude was no longer collected just from natural springs or draining seepages, but was pumped out of the ground from wells drilled by machines using steam power. This was the first step toward the modern oil industry, and a breakthrough in the history of energy: the beginning of an oil society. The first part of this article provides an introduction to the early uses and production of petroleum in Europe, and advances in understanding the nature, the physical properties, and the composition of hydrocarbons. It provides a brief analysis of the interaction between technology, society and the environmental context in northwestern Pennsylvania, where, between 1858 and 1859, a new successful pattern developed to produce oil in commercial quantity. From 1861, that innovative process put the United States in the position to gain increasing shares in the young European mineral oil markets and, subsequently, to jeopardize the position of local oil (vegetal, animal and mineral) producers. The second part, using a national case study approach, explores the history of a British oil company operating in Romania since 1863, the Wallachian Oil Company. This venture by London stockholders—short, difficult, and abortive—is a mirror of the nature of the business implemented by emerging oil companies, not only from Europe, and therefore exemplifies the challenges of setting the modern oil sector in motion in the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-1988
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 04-03-2019
Publisher: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.5282/RCC/8383
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.3828/TPR.2012.22
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-03-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.2104/HA070010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-02-2017
Abstract: The early 1920s were a pivotal period in Perth’s water history, marked by conflict over the inadequacies of the city’s water supply. Only a small area of the city had reticulated water most people relied on wells or rainwater tanks. Water shortages, particularly in new suburbs and higher districts, prompted the Western Australian Government to impose water restrictions. The press, local government authorities, and opposition politicians took the government to task, and officials and householders protested at public meetings. This article analyzes the causes of water shortages, the level of protest, tensions over the governance of the water supply, and the response of the state government. As on America’s west coast in the same period, government decision making was often influenced by rural needs, but the role played by urban householders, with the support of the press and opposition politicians, was paramount in shaping new water supply systems for city dwellers.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-02-2009
Start Date: 2018
End Date: 2021
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2017
End Date: 2021
Funder: Australian Research Council
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