Open AccessBaku and architecture: from Soviet building to archistars
Author(s) -
Federico De Boni
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
geopolitical, social security and freedom journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-3326
pISSN - 2587-3318
DOI - 10.2478/gssfj-2018-0015
Subject(s) - architecture , moment (physics) , industrial city , political science , urban history , economy , history , economic history , geography , economic geography , archaeology , economics , industrial zone , physics , classical mechanics
The present paper intends to analyse the current urban situation of the city of Baku. Starting from its history and the vicissitudes that have seen the alternating city periods of splendour with gloomy moments, some of the great urban projects realised since the end of the 20th century and which are transforming the appearance of Baku are taken into consideration. Accomplice a new moment of splendour, favoured by the huge proceeds of the oil industry, the city of Baku is, in fact, revolutionising its appearance and its structure to become a new city of global importance, as it happened for Dubai.