(SOUNDBITE OF FOOTSTEPS) REEVES: Step down these stairs into the surreal underground world of the Tashkent metro. The ticket hall is orderly and clean. REEVES: Then as the train sets off ...

But start in Tashkent. Following the earthquake, the city was rebuilt with a large tree-lined boulevard, numerous parks and, crucially, a Metro system. In accordance with Soviet practice ...

Tashkent became a laboratory of urbanism. Architects arrived en masse to rebuild roads, apartment blocks, hotels, theaters, shopping malls, metro stations and a panoply of public structures that ...

"Tashkent's metro, operating since 1977, was the first in Central Asia. At the urban scale, it represented a very important step in the modernization of the city and was seen as more than a ...

The Heliocomplex outside Tashkent is one of the largest solar furnaces in the world. (Karel Balas) Both the Heliocomplex and Cosmonaut Prospekt Metro Station have glass installations by Irena ...