'City of the Future': Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana (Integration and Conflict Studies, 14)

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. 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.

• | Author: Mateusz Laszczkowski
• | Publisher: Berghahn Books
• | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 220 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1785332562
• | ISBN-13: 9781785332562