“City of the Future”: Built Spaces, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana. By Mateusz Laszczkowski. Integration and Conflict Studies. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. xii, 205 pp. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $95.00, hard bound.
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DOI: 10.1017/slr.2017.237
Abstract: the final decades of the empire. Saburova and Eklof conclude: “State and society, the authorities and the opposition turn out to have been more closely linked, than has been thought. The manifest rupture between them… read more here.
Keywords: future built; urban change; spaces modernity; city future ... See more keywords
Circulation, modernity, and urban space in 1960s Beirut
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DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2017.1279613
Abstract: ABSTRACT In this essay, I explore the role of circulation in Beirut’s urban space and society in the early 1960s. Drawing primarily from the Lebanese francophone newspaper L’Orient, I show how the rise of automobility… read more here.
Keywords: circulation modernity; beirut; urban space; circulation ... See more keywords