'City of the Future'

Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana

von Mateusz Laszczkowski

220 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Integration and Conflict Studies
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten Städte, Stadtgemeinden / Stadtleben
• ISBN: 9781785332562
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2016
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books