Bakü Kent Kimliği, İkon Yapılar ve Küreselleşme
Baku’s City Identity, Icon Buildings and Globalization

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important problems of today's cities is the efforts of cities to gain identity. The identity of the city consists of city’s past situation and changes and constructions of today.While the cities are struggling to protect their identities from the past, on the other hand they are unified by the global forms, which are made by using similar production techniques and similar materials with the globalization breezes.Within the general category, Baku can be defined as a port city, but it is much more open to global influences as a point of intensification of trade, society and cultural innovations as in other port cities. Baku has strong and original identity values with the old city with traces of Turkish-Islamic architecture and the its wide boulevards with neoclassical building shaped by the traces of the Soviet era. The city is also influenced by current trends that create attraction centers of urban with the winds of globalization. City are differentiated by constructing visual identity and belows: Architectural, historical and cultural, avenues, streets and squares, relation with the sea, Icon buildings and images. In this study is referenced visual elements consisting of Bakü city’s identity, the centers of urban attraction and the recent iconic construction of the city in order to create a modern urban image.

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