Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Improving Places: Liberal Colonialism and the Speculative Imaginary of Early Planning
5. 1. Garden Cities: The Art and Craft of Making Place in Edwardian Britain 31
6. 2. Planning as Imperial Cultivation in the Work of Patrick Geddes 60
7. Part II: Diminishing Horizons: The Ambivalent Temporalities of Development
8. 3. Capturing the City: Regeneration, Policing, and the Ghosts of Postcolonial Britain 95
9. 4. The End of London: Temporalities of the Gentrified City 126
10. 5. Level Up: Zadie Smith’s NW and the Promise of Progression 158
11. 6. Geographies of Discontent: Brexit and the Politics of Abandonment 185
12. Coda 215
13. Acknowledgments 221
14. Notes 225
15. Bibliography 285
16. Index 309