01984nmm a22002897a 4500003000900000005001700009008004100026022001400067040002800081100003400109245002200143260003400165300001500199500011100214501028400325504009500609520070200704653001001406653002201416653003101438653002501469653002201494856006101516942001501577999001501592952008701607ES-BaAUN20230515175056.0221102b        |||    |o||j| 00| 0 eng d  a2575-5374  aES-BaAUNbengcES-BaAUN1 aEspinosa, Alejandra eauthor.11aCapital Petrolera3 burbanNext,cJanuary 25, 2021.  a972 words.  aAlejandra Espinosa, Energy and sustainability, Essay, No Density, Politics and economics, Urban Paradigms	  aAesthetics, Amazon, Architecture, Building, Construction, Ecuador, Emerging ecology, Environment, Essay, Geographies of extraction, Global South, Industrial context, Material extraction, Non renewable resources, Oil, Petroleum infrastructure, Unfinished, Urban landscape, Wealth	  aOriginally published in Issue No2 of DESIRED LANDSCAPES.

Drawings by Dimitris Zampopulos.  aThere is always a line or, better to say, infinite lines between the spaces we aspire to inhabit and those existing within the actual realm of possibility. Sour Lake, or Lago Agrio in Spanish, is an Ecuadorian city that challenges western and modern conceptions of an ideal city. Emerging in the center of the Amazonian region, Sour Lake’s aesthetics and its architecture perspire oil: buildings, streets, stores and all the brick and mortar composing its urban dynamic are influenced by oil resources exploitation. Altogether, as the city grew, it came to be defined by an “unfinished” aesthetic that puts into discussion the relationship between urban imaginaries and their realization.


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