postcolonialism and the city Jacobs, Jane M. (Jane Margaret) 1958- creator text bibliography nyu 1996 1st ed. monographic eng

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xiii, 193 p. ill. ; maps ; 25 cm. Contents: List of figures viii -- Preface -- Acknowledgements xii -- 1. Travels on the Edge of Empire 1 -- 3 Real space -- 5 Itineraries -- 7 Talking out of place -- 10 The journey -- 2 Post Colonial Spaces 13 -- Colonialism and imperialism 15 -- Imperialism and space 19 -- The limits of the postcolonial 22 -- Postmodern space and the post colonial 29 -- Identity, the past and city space 34 -- 3 Negotiating the Heart Place and Identity in the Postimperial City 38 -- Difference gathered in the City of London 41 -- Making monuments 43 -- Picturing the empire 47 -- Pleasures of hearth 49 -- Imperial illusions 53 -- Continental entanglements 58 -- Colonial returns 64 -- 4 Eastern Trading Diaspores, Dwelling and Place 70 -- Urban imperialisms 73 -- Land unoccupied 75 -- Hogarth and sag gosht 80 -- Developing nostalgias 87 -- Trading in community 91 -- Reinventing home 96 -- 5 Urban Dreamings the Aboriginal Sacred in the City 103 -- Ordering the urban 105 -- Visioning development 109 -- Urban nomadism 110 -- The erotic city 115 -- Brewery dreamings 116 -- Placing the Waugal 119 -- Back to Nature 121 -- Preserving the Crown 124 -- Fringedwelling 126 -- 6 Authentically Yours De Touring The Map 132 -- Nature, culture, colonialism 135 -- Imperial touring 138 -- Indigenous tourings 142 -- Remapping the colonial 149 -- 7 Conclusion 157 -- Geographical encounters 157 -- Unruly imperialism 159 -- Postcolonial possibilities 161 -- Bibliography 164 -- Index 187 – Figures: 1 Neils M. Lund's 1904 painting, The Heart of the Empire 39 -- 2 The modernist Mies van der Rohe scheme for Bank Junction 42 -- 3 The James Stirling and Michael Wilford scheme for Bank Junction 42 -- 4 and 5 The ninetenth-century buildings on the Bank Junction development site: before and after 44-45 -- 6 Map of Bank Junction showing listed buildings and Conservation 46 -- 7 The glimpsed view of St Paul's from Cornhill, before and after development 50 -- 8 Protected views of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral 52 -- 9 James Stirling's Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart 62 -- 10 Traffic regulation responses to the IRA bombings 66 -- 11 The City of London's Ring of Steel 66 -- 12 The Georgian housing stock of Spitalfields 76 -- 13 Map of listed buildings and Conservation Areas surrounding Spitalfields Market 77 -- 14 The Spitalfields Trust flying squad 78 -- 15 The Delft fire surround of the Spitalfields community 82 -- 16 Spitalfields according to the developer's history 84 -- 17 The too Georgian vision for Spitalfields 86 -- 18 The Spitalfields Development Group logo 88 -- 19 The MacCormac scheme for the Spitalfields Market redevelopment 89 -- 20 Signs of racial harassment in Spitalfields 92 -- 21 Anti-racism street march in Spitalfields 93 -- 22 The Campaign to Save Spitalfields cartoon 94 -- 23 The Old Swan Brewery 104 -- 24 The gridded city of early Perth 106 -- 25 Heritage sign at the Old Swan Brewery 117 -- 26 The Roger Gregson plans for the Old Swan Brewery redevelopment 123 -- 27 Robert Bropho (left) and a fellow protester at the Old Swan Brewery 128 -- 28 Police remove protestors from the Old Swan Brewery site 129 -- 29 The Brisbane City Council ecocentre 133 -- 30 The panoptic view offered to turn of the century sightseers at Mount Coot tha 141 -- 31 The painted images used at the J.C. Slaughter Falls art trail 144 -- 32 Artists Laurie Nilsen and Marshall Bell of Campfire Consultancy the Main Gallery at J.C. Slaughter Falls -- 33 Re mappings at the J.C. Slaugther Falls art trail 150 -- 34 Laurie Nilsen’s Aboriginalised re mapping of the city of Brisbane 152 -- Jane M. Jacobs. Index Bibliography Urban renewal Case studies Minorities England London Cultural Studies Imperialism Social Geography Postcolonialism Case studies Aboriginal Australians Human geography Indigenous peoples HT170 J33 1996 9780415120074 0415120071 pucpr 121109 20251219141011.0 eng