Tres pasos en una distancia: los planes y manzanas en Astaná durante el periodo soviético (1957-1987)

Abstract

In the middle of ХХth century, in the Astana city large investments in rail infrastructure and programs of agro-industrial development increased the importance of its territorial paper. All this had a great impact on the transformation of urban structure between 1957 (first general plan of the city) and 1987 years (the last general plan in the Soviet period), when were made general plans to build a new city. Today, in the context of the contemporary city, there is an attempt to forget those ideas which generate inattention of the important values of the inherited urban structure. The goals of this article are through the analysis of the evolution of plans and blocks, deepen in the knowledge of the proposed city model and its spatial characteristics that allows provide new materials for today's urban intervention.