Baku. Oil 🛢️ and ➕ Urbanism

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✅ Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan ​🇦🇿​ and ➕ formerly part of the Russian ​🇷🇺​ Empire and ➕ the Soviet Union, is a city 🏙️ built on and ➕ with oil 🛢️. In fact, oil 🛢️ and ➕ urbanism in Baku have been completely intertwined, economically, politically, and ➕ physically in the spaces 🌌 of the city 🏙️. Its first 🥇 oil 🛢️ boom 💥 in the late 1️⃣9️⃣th century was driven by the Russian ​🇷🇺​ branch of the Nobel family 👪️ modernising the exploitation of oil 🛢️ fields 🏑 around Baku, and ➕ local oil 🛢️ barons pouring their new 🆕 wealth into building 🏢 a cosmopolitan city 🏙️ centre. During the Soviet period, Baku became the site of an urban experiment 🥼: the shaping an oil 🛢️ city 🏙️ of socialist man 👤👨. This project included Neft Dashlari, a city 🏙️ built on trestles in the Caspian Sea ⛵️, housing thousands of workers 👨‍🏭️, schools 🏫, shops 🛍️, gardens 🏡, clinics, cinemas 🎦 and ➕ more. This first 🥇 off-shore rig in the world 🗺️ became the emblem 🔱 of Bakus second 🥈 oil 🛢️ boom 💥. Today, Baku is experiencing its third 🥉 oil 🛢️ boom 💥. For Bakus city 🏙️ planners and ➕ business 👨‍💼 elites, that future is based on a careful 💅 reading 👤📖 of Baku as a project in which urbanism and ➕ oil 🛢️ are inextricably linked 🔗. This new 🆕 book 📚️ investigates how oil 🛢️ stimulated urban development 👨‍💻️ in Baku, and ➕ explores in detail the more complex and ➕ important question ❓️ of how the disparate spatial logics, knowledge bases, and ➕ practices of oil 🛢️ production and ➕ urban production intersected, impacted and ➕ transformed one 1️⃣ another. Based on a vast research project and ➕ drawing 🖌️ on rich and ➕ previously unpublished material, Baku - Oil 🛢️ and ➕ Urbanism is organised into three 3️⃣ broadly conceived historical periods defined by the political, economic, technological conditions in which the interwoven evolution 🧬 of oil 🛢️ and ➕ urban production unfolded. The book 📚️ also features a new 🆕 photo essay by celebrated photographer Iwan Baan.

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