Abstract
For many Central Asian cities, the era of Soviet rule was -if not even reason for their existence -at least determining their historical and contemporary economic alignment.Even today in many cities of Central Asia such as Pavlodar, Dushanbe, Bishkek or Tashkent the secondary sector forms the economic backbone.That is also the case in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan.Due to declining public transport systems, growing motorization and comparatively old car fleets emissions from the transport sector became the second important source of air pollution inside the cities.Together with the emissions from the secondary sector, transport emissions can -under certain weather conditionslead to health threatening living conditions in some parts of a city.Although filter technologies in the industry, an update of the car fleet and further investments in public transport might alleviate some of these effects they are for manifold reasons often not very easy to implement.Therefore, this paper tries to assess already existing and potential possibilities to consider potential emission hot-spots already during the process of planning urban extensions, specifically new living quarters.As a result, this investigation draws upon experiences that have been made in cities worldwide but specifically in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan.