"City of the future" : built space, modernity and urban change in Astana /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Laszczkowski, Mateusz (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn, Ã2016.
Colección:Integration and conflict studies ; v. 14.
Temas:
Urban renewal > Kazakhstan > Nur-Sultan.
Group identity > Kazakhstan > Nur-Sultan.
Sociology, Urban > Kazakhstan > Nur-Sultan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > World > Asian.
Civilization
Group identity
Social conditions
Sociology, Urban
Urban renewal
Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan) > Social conditions.
Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan) > Civilization.
Kazakhstan > Astana
Kazakhstan, Astana, Urban Studies, Capital Cities, Post-Soviet, Modernization, Urbanism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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