Cities of WhitenessISBN: 978-1-4051-2913-8
Hardcover
232 pages
November 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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List of Boxes.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
1. Encountering Cities of Whiteness.
Journeying to Inner Sydney.
Cities as Cultural Constructions - Gentrification and Urbanism.
The Birth of Whiteness Scholarship.
Cities of Neo-colonial Whiteness.
2. (Post)colonial Sydney.
From Dangerous to Endangered City.
Securing Whiteness in the Paradoxical City.
Conclusions.
3. 'The Good Old Days'.
Heritage Dreaming.
Performing Sydney Heritage.
Activating Heritage.
Architectures of Escape 1: Into the Past.
Conclusions.
4. Cosmopolitan Metropolitanism (Or The Indifferent City).
Introduction.
Manhattan Dreaming (in Sydney Australia).
Architectures of Escape 2: Sydney's SoHo Syndrome.
Conclusions.
5. Cities of Whiteness.
Geographies of Urban Whiteness.
Studying Cities.
The End of (Cities of) Whiteness?
Bibliography.
Index.