Architecture is made by use and design. To use a building is to make it, either by physical transformation, such as moving walls or furniture, by inhabiting it in ways not previously imagined or by conceiving it anew. With a role equal in the formulation of architecture to that of the architect,...

This paper considers price movements in the oil markets between 2003 and 2010 and seeks to explain the significant trends in this period. It notes that the oil market is by its very nature inherently volatile because of the nature of oil as a storable and exhaustible resource and the influence...