Contents
Introduction
Part I. Blessed by Fossil Fuels? Pittsburgh, Houston, Louisiana, and Los Angeles
1. Pittsburgh as an Energy Capital: Perspectives on Coal and Natural Gas Transitions and the Environment - Joel A. Tarr and Karen Clay
2. The Energy Capital of the World?: Oil-Led Development in Twentieth-Century Houston - Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt
3. Making a Lemon Out of Lemonade: Louisiana’s Petrochemical Corridor - Craig E. Colten
4. Los Angeles, the Energy Capital of Southern California - Sarah S. Elkind
Part II. Distant yet Central? : Perth, Calgary, and Stravanger
5. Scoping Perth as an Energy Capital - Jenny Gregory
6. At Arm’s Length: Energy and the Construction of a Peripheral Prairie Petrometropolis - Mattheew N. Eisler
7. Oil Shocks in an Oil City: The View from Stavanger, Norway, 1973–2008 - Gunner Nerhelm
Part III. Cursed by Oil? : Tampico and Port-Gentil
8. Tampico, Mexico: The Rise and Decline of an Energy Metropolis - Myrna Santiago
9. Port-Gentil: From Forestry Capital to Energy Capital - Douglas A. Yates
Conclusion: Comparative Perspectives on Energy Capitals
Notes
Contributors
Index