TY - BOOK AU - Jacobs,Jane M. TI - Edge of Empire: postcolonialism and the city. SN - 9780415120074 AV - HT170 J33 1996 PY - 1996/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Urban renewal KW - Case studies KW - Local KW - Minorities KW - England KW - London KW - Cultural Studies KW - Imperialism KW - Social Geography KW - Postcolonialism KW - Aboriginal Australians KW - Human geography KW - Indigenous peoples N1 - Index; Bibliography; 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 -- ER -