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Baku : oil and urbanism / Eve Blau ; with Ivan Rupnik ; with a photographic essay by Iwan Baan.
Fine Arts Library H169.A952 B353 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blau, Eve.
- Rupnik, Ivan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Azerbaijan--Baku--History.
- City planning.
- Architecture and technology--Azerbaijan--Baku.
- Architecture and technology.
- Urban ecology (Sociology)--Azerbaijan--Baku.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- Oil industries--Social aspects--Azerbaijan--Baku.
- Oil industries.
- Civil engineering--Social aspects.
- Civil engineering.
- Oil industries--Social aspects.
- History.
- Azerbaijan--Baku.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 302 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, plans ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Zurich : Park Books, [2018]
- Summary:
- Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan and formerly part of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, is the original oil city, with oil and urbanism thoroughly intertwined--economically, politically, and physical--in the city's fabric. Baku saw its first oil boom in the late nineteenth century, driven by the Russian branch of the Nobel family modernizing the oil fields around Baku as local oil barons poured their new wealth into building a cosmopolitan city center. During the Soviet period, Baku became the site of an urban experiment: the shaping of an oil city of socialist man. That project included Neft Dashlari, a city built on trestles in the Caspian Sea and designed to house thousands of workers, schools, shops, gardens, clinics, and cinemas as well as 2,000 oil rigs, pipelines, and collecting stations. Today, as it heads into an uncertain post-oil future, Baku's planners and business elites regard the legacy of its past as a resource that sustains new aspirations and identities. Richly illustrated with historical images and archival material, this book tells the story of the city, paying particular attention to how the disparate spatial logics, knowledge bases, and practices of oil production and urban production intersected, affected, and transformed one another creating an urban cultural environment unique among extraction sites.
- Contents:
- Oil baron city
- Oil city of socialist man
- Baku photo essay / by Iwan Baan
- Looking beyond oil.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783038600763
- 3038600768
- OCLC:
- 1081320894
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