"City of the future" : built space, modernity and urban change in Astana / Mateusz Laszczkowski.
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn,
©2016.
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| Series: | Integration and conflict studies ;
v. 14. |
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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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 205 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1785332570 9781785332579 |