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
Summary
Governance and Public Space in the Australian City is a rich and evocative examination of the production and use of public spaces in Australian cities in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It will be illuminating reading for scholars and students of urban history and Australian history
