Introduction / Catherine Alexander And Victor Buchli -- Astana: Materiality And The City / Victor Buchli -- Almaty: Rethinking The Public Sector / Catherine Alexander -- Tashkent: Three Capitals, Three Worlds / Marfua Tokhtakhodzhaeva -- City Of Migrants: Contemporary Ulan-ude In The Context Of Russian Migration / Galina Manzanova -- The Creation And Revitalisation Of Ethnic, Sacred Sites In Ulan-ude Since 1990s / Altanhuu Hürelbaatar -- The Homeless Of Ulan-ude / Irina Baldaeva -- New Subjects And Situated Interdependence: After Privatisation In Ulan-ude / Caroline Humphrey -- Index. Edited By Catherine Alexander, Victor Buchli And Caroline Humphrey. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.