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'City of the future' : built space, modernity and urban change in Astana / Mateusz Laszczkowski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laszczkowski, Mateusz, author.
- Series:
- Integration and conflict studies ; 14.
- Integration and Conflict Studies ; 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban renewal--Kazakhstan--Astana.
- Urban renewal.
- Group identity--Kazakhstan--Astana.
- Group identity.
- Sociology, Urban--Kazakhstan--Astana.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Astana (Kazakhstan)--Social conditions.
- Astana (Kazakhstan).
- Astana (Kazakhstan)--Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 205 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn, 2016.
- 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.
- Contents:
- List of Maps, Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Introduction: Pathways into the ‘City of the Future’
- Chapter 1. Materializing the Future: Images and Practices
- Chapter 2. Performing Urbanity: Migrants, the City and Collective Identification
- Chapter 3. Tselinograd: The Past in the ‘City of the Future’
- Chapter 4. Celebration and the City: Belonging in Public Space
- Chapter 5. Fixing the Courtyard: Mundane Place-Making
- Chapter 6. Playing with the City: ‘Encounter’ in Astana 153
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781789200751
- 178920075X
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