'City of the Future'
Author | : Mateusz Laszczkowski |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781785332579 |
ISBN-13 | : 1785332570 |
Rating | : 4/5 (570 Downloads) |
Download or read book 'City of the Future' written by Mateusz Laszczkowski and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.