TY - GEN AU - Rossman, Vadim TI - Capital cities: varieties and patterns of development and relocation SN - 9781138837775 U1 - 307.76 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - UD N2 - This book studies capital city relocation concepts, paradigms and methodologies of analysis as well as the assessment of outcomes, motivations and decision-making models relevant to these projects. Capital cities' relocations are not singular and unique but are relatively wide-spread political phenomena evolving in universal ways and governed by homogeneous laws. Some of these laws apply both to ancient and modern precedents, while others are peculiar to different transnational regions of the world or specific political regimes ER -