'City of the Future'

<p> 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.</p>