This paper discusses improvisation as a liminal practice of inhabiting the in-between that
marks urban spaces from squats and brownfields to communal gardens, from infrastructural …

This article examines three cases of mid‐20th‐century oil media—oil‐related imagery,
iconographies, and media—in visual culture: a series of popular science books entitled The …

아제르바이잔의 수도 바쿠는 오일 산업에 기반한 지정학적 특수성 덕분에 독특한 도시풍경을
형성해왔다. 소비에트 해체 이후 러시아와 터키 두 국가에 인접해있는 산유국이라는 지정학적 …

This study investigates how Karamay, a typical mining city in Northwest China, has
expanded and evolved over the last three decades (1994–2021) with a special study area of …

Contrary to urban histories of the Caucasus that have tended to take an individual capital
city and chart urban development from the Persian imprint and the Russian imperial legacy …

Azerbaijan's post-Soviet commemorations reproduce a little-discussed Soviet practice,
which was to deploy cultural exchange to reify the nation. Military, cultural, and political …

Regions and territories describe the same spaces in very different ways. This dissertation
examines architecture's regionalist conceptual and design ventures that questioned …

Interpreting the development trajectories of Tbilisi, Yerevan, and Baku requires a careful
understanding of the urban policies that have shaped them from the post-Soviet period to …

Interpreting the development trajectories of Tbilisi, Yerevan, and Baku requires a careful
understanding of the urban policies that have shaped them from the post-Soviet period to …

In a 1956 speech to the American Petroleum Institute, noted geologist and geophysicist M.
King Hubbert made a series of predictions that would shake the oil industry to its core …