Be the Mayor of Astana

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The Astana City Akimat and the National Holding Baiterek manage Kazakhstan's futuristic planned steppe capital — transferred from Almaty in 1997 — operating district heating networks functional at -40°C winters, maintaining iconic city commissioned architecture by Norman Foster, Kisho Kurokawa, and Manfredi Nicoletti, and administering the EXPO 2017 green energy legacy site now operating as the Astana EXPO International Centre.

The seat for Astana on the Board of Mayors is open. Seat #1 is yours to take.

The city

Landmark: Bayterek Tower & Khan Shatyr Entertainment Centre.

• Astana's district heating authority operates one of the world's most extreme urban heating networks — 150 km of insulated underground hot water pipe loops that maintain 80°C supply temperatures across a steppe city where winter temperatures regularly reach -40°C, requiring round the clock boiler plant monitoring and rapid pipe fault response teams during the 6-month heating season.
• Astana's urban design committee manages a skyline built by globally celebrated architects — Norman Foster's Khan Shatyr transparent tent mall, Kisho Kurokawa's residential towers, and the Pyramid of Peace concert hall — creating a municipality where architectural heritage management protocols now apply to buildings less than 30 years old, considered instantly iconic national landmarks from the moment of completion.

How a term works

Take office and every day brings a live situation from the city's services: a decision to make and a result that is measured. A term is scored on approval, infrastructure, environment and innovation, inside a real budget, and every mayor's work adds to Astana's own record on the Board of Mayors. You are not alone in office: message and chat with other mayors, form a council with friends, trade with nearby cities and send aid. Cities rise together: there is no losing city.

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