BAKU – OIL AND URBANISM

Text in English, 304 pages, 159 color and 176 b/w illustrations

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. The book also features a new photo essay by celebrated photographer Iwan Baan.

Eve Blau with Ivan Rupnik