Stories: Growth

• Astana: A City Built for Giants

  by Dalton, Ben | Kazakhstan | August 28, 2013

  Astana simply means “capital.” In 1997, the recently-independent country of Kazakhstan moved its government here. Flush with new oil wealth, Kazakhstan has built an EPCOT city of sorts on the empty Central Asian steppe. With a jumble of international styles and knock-offs of historic buildings, the city embodies the aspirations of a post-Soviet people searching for a new...

• Astana: A City Built for Giants

  by Arnoldy, Ben | Kazakhstan | August 28, 2013

  Astana simply means “capital.” In 1997, the recently-independent country of Kazakhstan moved its government here. Flush with new oil wealth, Kazakhstan has built an EPCOT city of sorts on the empty Central Asian steppe. With a jumble of international styles and knock-offs of historic buildings, the city embodies the aspirations of a post-Soviet people searching for a new...