'City of the Future': Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana

Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams...

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Main Author: Laszczkowski, Mateusz (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2016]
Series:Integration and Conflict Studies 14
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Summary:Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city's longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches to place and space in anthropology, geography and other disciplines, the book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic - allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (220 Seiten)
ISBN:9781785332579
DOI:10.1515/9781785332579