EXTRACTIVE REGIONS IN DEVELOPED-COUNTRIES - A COMPARATIVE-ANALYSIS OF THE OIL CAPITALS, HOUSTON AND ABERDEEN Academic Article

abstract

• In this article extraction economies in less developed countries are compared to extraction economies in developed countriesto the Houston, Texas, and Aberdeen, Scotland, petroleum regions. The following questions are addressed: (1) What are the differences in Houston's and Aberdeen's development as petroleum regions? (2) How has their extractive development differed from that in less developed countries? (3) What is the relationship of early layers of development to later extractive investments? (4) How have capital timing and scale shaped Houston's and Aberdeen's development as urban regions? The historical timing of oil discoveries greatly affects the way oil capital builds up and exfoliates relationally in urban regions.

authors

• Feagin, Joe

published proceedings

• URBAN AFFAIRS REVIEW

author list (cited authors)

• FEAGIN, J. R.

citation count

• 10

complete list of authors

• FEAGIN, JR

publication date

• June 1990

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Urban Affairs Review  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/004208169002500405

start page

• 591

end page

• 619

volume

• 25

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004208169002500405