While we’re working on getting this week’s Infrastructural City post up (it’s coming!), I thought it’d be worth noting that The Center for Land Use Interpretation has just launched a new online exhibition, “Urban Crude”, which explores the oil fields of the Los Angeles Basin in intimate and fantastic detail. Oil wells sprout like hardy Ailanthus from cracks in big box parking lots, are nestled within exclusive golf courses and country clubs (at the Hillcrest Country Club, “members once received oil revenue royalties instead of paying membership dues”), and sit side-by-side with residences in stereotypical Californian suburbs.
[The image above is from said exhibition; thanks to CLUI’s Karl Loescher for the tip.]
