Governance and Public Space in the Australian City: Negotiating Public Order in Brisbane, 1875-1914

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
	Ordering Public Desire
	Reading the City Socially
	Writing the City Spatially
Part I: The Streets
	1 “City Improvements Are Not Made for Men Who Walk Backwards”: Safety and Comfort in the Streetscape
		The Brisbane ‘Boulevard’: The Legacy of Governor Gipps
		“A City of Stinks”: Purifying the Streetscape
		A Matter of Convenience: Or Lack Thereof
		Socialising the Street
		Conclusion
	2 “Not Every Person Who Waits Is Loitering”: Municipal Bylaws and Civil Liberties in the Streetscape
		Laws of Motion: Enforcing Flow on City Streets
		Harlots and Hatpins: The Street as a Site of Feminine Degradation
		Conclusion
Part II: The Slum
	3 The ‘Hard’ City Slum – Materiality and Moralism in Frog’s Hollow
		Approaching the Slum in Urban History
		Settling Frog’s Hollow
		Making a Slum: Material or Mental?
		The Haunts of Hunted Women
		The ‘Vanishing’ of Frog’s Hollow
		The Hollow Re-Emerges: ‘Slums and Slatterns’ in The Truth
		Conclusion
	4 The ‘Soft’ City Slum: Frog’s Hollow as a Site of Social Otherness
		Representing Race
		The ‘Nine-Holes’ Chinese Quarter: The Slum within the Slum
		Daylight and Dark: Dissecting Lane’s ‘Labyrinth’
		Separating the Real from the Imagined
		Governmental and Judicial Intervention
		Conclusion
Part III: The Natural Environment
	5 Breathing Spaces in a Wilderness of Bricks and Mortar
		The “Lungs” of the City: The Necessity of Parks in Urban Life
		‘Reserving’ Public Space in Colonial Brisbane
		Municipal Parks versus Government Gardens
		The Artificial ‘Natural’
		Conclusion
	6 Regulating Nature – The Paradox of the Park
		Urban Reformers or Middle-Class Playgrounds
		The ‘Ladies’ Who Lunch’ and the Sly Sirens: Women in Parks
		Daylight versus Gaslight: The Light and Dark Binary in Urban Parks
		Conclusion
Conclusion
Index