After Oil : A Comparative Analysis of Oil Heritage, Urban Transformations, and Resilience Paradigms

Dr. Asma Mehan is an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University’s Huckabee College of Architecture and Director of the Architectural Humanities and Urbanism Lab (AHU_Lab). She is also Editor-in-Chief of PlaNext: Next Generation Planning, an international open-access journal affiliated with AESOP. Her research focuses on architectural humanities, critical urban studies, spatial planning, and heritage studies.Dr. Mehan has authored over 50 publications in multiple languages, with notable books including The Affective Agency of Public Space (De Gruyter, 2024), Tehran: From Sacred to Radical (Routledge, 2022), and Kuala Lumpur: Community, Infrastructure, and Urban Inclusivity (Routledge, 2020). Her work appears in top Q1 journals such as Cultural Geographies, Frontiers, and Journal of Urbanism. With an h-index of 23, her contributions are widely recognized.She previously taught at TU Delft and Politecnico di Torino and has been a guest lecturer and researcher at TU Munich, ZK/U Berlin, University of Porto, and Deakin University. Dr. Mehan is a Co-Principal Investigator on the NSF-funded Co-DREAM Tech project to advance community resilience through adaptive emerging technologies. Her accolades include fellowships from FCT Portugal, NIAS-KNAW, and the Municipality of Amsterdam. In 2023, she contributed to the Co-Production of Liminal Spaces exhibition at the Venice Biennale’s ECC. Her work extends beyond academia through exhibitions, policy toolkits, and visual media, shaping global conversations on architecture and urbanism.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Navigating a Post-Oil Future (Mehan).- Part 1. Oil Heritage: Cultural and Social Perspectives.- Chapter 2. Crude Visions: Exploring Oil's Aesthetic Legacy in Iranian Contemporary Art (Resta).- Chapter 3. Cultural-Social Narratives of the Company's Station Compound from Past to Present (Mirzaei and Lakizadeh).- Chapter 4. The Postindustrial Landscape of Eastern Khuzestan after Oil: Case Study of Naft-Sefid (Ghomeshi).- Chapter 5.- The Embodied Spatial Experience in the Oil Industry’s Landscape through the Cinematic Lens of Michelangelo Antonioni (Georga).- Chapter 6. It’s a Gas: The Twilight of Oil Culture in American Photography (Relidzyńska).- Part 2. Global Oil Frontiers: Opportunities and Challenges.- Chapter 7. Navigating Uganda's Oil Frontier: Understanding Potential, Addressing Challenges, and Annexing Opportunities (Shafik).- Chapter 8. Climate Justice Through Design: A Shift in Paradigm within the Gulf of Mexico (Mehan and Casey).- Chapter 9. Innovation in a Post-Oil City: Moving Design Away from Carbon Dependency (Rasouli).- Chapter 10. The Solarpunk Resiliency: An Alternative Approach to Transitioning Towards Post-Oil Urbanscapes (Sezer).- Chapter 11. Navigating the Post-Oil Landscape: A Case Study of Azerbaijan (Husar and Pashayeva).- Part 3. Petrochemical Industries: Legacies and Impacts.- Chapter 12. The Rise of Petrotopias in Bahrain: Nationalists, Oil Companies and the People (Tirupathi).- Chapter 13. The Impacts of the Petrochemical Industry in Latin America: The Argentinian and Mexican Cases (Loredo-Cansino).- Chapter 14. Mapping Toxic Legacies to Map Future Possibilities: Community-Based Experiences Toward Just Transitions in an Italian Risk Landscape (Privitera).- Part 4. Green Transition and Sustainable Futures.- Chapter 15. Upcycle and the Automobile: What to Do with All of the Clunkers During the Green Mobility Transition (Stiefel).- Chapter 16. Transforming the Construction Industry to Become More Resourceful: The Knowledge Gaps in Mass Timber Construction Systems (Lehmann). Chapter 17. Greening in Aridity: Navigating Industrial Growth and the Climate Crisis in Morocco (Tafrata).- Chapter 18. Urban Transitions and Industrial Heritage in the After-Oil Era: Lessons from Turin's Automotive Legacy (Mezzalama and Dinler).- Chapter 19.  From Soviet Oil Heritage to a European Energy Future in Ukraine (Zadorian and Hutson).- Part 5. Strategic Planning for Post-Oil Cities.- Chapter 20. Reimagining Jeddah's Urban Landscape: Transitioning Beyond Oil Dependence (Mohsen and Elkateeb).- Chapter 21. A Tactical Strategy for the Future City! The Architecture of a Blueprint Based on Scenario Planning (Yousefi and Ghorashi).- Chapter 22. Global Energy Transition influence in Urban Development: Digital Heritage Preservation Methods approaches (Alikhani and Ghiasi).- Part 6. Urban and Spatial Transformations Beyond Oil.- Chapter 23. Navigating Post-Oil Transitions and Spatial Justice: A Case Study of Cleveland, Ohio (Meshkani).- Chapter 24. The Complexities and Contradictions of Baghdad’s Social-Cultural, Political, and Urban Transformation during the Post-oil (Merie).- Chapter 25. Reinforcing “Chineseness” in the Central-Asian Borderland: Labor and Eco-Nationalism in the Making of Karamay's Oil Heritage (Yu).- Chapter 26. Oil in Los Angeles: Tenable Futures from Extractive Pasts (Sharma).- Part 7. Heritage and Cultural Shifts in Post-Oil Societies. Chapter 27. Oil, Medicine, and Modernization: The Evolution of Healthcare in Iran’s Oil Company Towns (1901–1979) (Seyedi et al.).- Chapter 28. Shifting Ideals: Energy and the American Dream After the 1973 Oil Crisis (Akhavan).- Chapter 29. Navigating the Post-Petroleum Era: A Comparative Study of Sustainable Urban Development Strategies in Oil-Reliant Cities in Iran and Singapore (Langaroudi et al.).