The production of a new Eurasian capital on the Kazakh steppe: Architecture, urban design, and identity in Astana

Nationalities Papers

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 590-605

  Köppen, Bernhard ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

architecture; Astana; capital city; Eurasian; urbanism

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CAPITAL CITY; CULTURAL IDENTITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GEOPOLITICS; STATE BUILDING; URBAN DESIGN;

ASTANA; KAZAKHSTAN;

EID: 84880596219     PISSN: 00905992     EISSN: 14653923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00905992.2013.767791     Document Type: Article

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