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

By 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 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.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785332562
• ISBN13: 9781785332562
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"