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  • This paper comprises of a description and analysis of materiality and social life of one specific urban public space, the Baku Promenade. Drawing on ethnographic field work in Azerbaijan, I provide some insights into Baku’s experience of the recent modernization of urban public space by looking at the method of modernization employed to realize the visions of a public green park. Particular attention will be paid to the role of trees and green architecture as a tool for ordering the city and the political mobilization of nature in the process of constructing socialist and post-socialist public spaces in Azerbaijan. Beyond the changing materiality of the built environment and urban green, I discuss how the Baku Promenade has been perceived and used by ordinary people, as well as the meanings visitors attach to the urban park in their memories of the late Soviet era. I argue that the official redevelopment of Baku Promenade has purified the space not only from the materiality of its Soviet era asphalt, but also from its egalitarian sociality and local intimacy of tree-shaded walkways. (xsd:string)
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  • Modernising the waterfront: urban green, built environment and social life of the Baku promenade (xsd:string)
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  • In: Europa Regional, 22.2014, 2015, 1-2, 65-79 (xsd:string)
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