Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Improving Places: Liberal Colonialism and the Speculative Imaginary of Early Planning
1. Garden Cities: The Art and Craft of Making Place in Edwardian Britain
2. Planning as Imperial Cultivation in the Work of Patrick Geddes
Part II: Diminishing Horizons: The Ambivalent Temporalities of Development
3. Capturing the City: Regeneration, Policing, and the Ghosts of Postcolonial Britain
4. The End of London: Temporalities of the Gentrified City
5. Level Up: Zadie Smith's NW and the Promise of Progression
6. Geographies of Discontent: Brexit and the Politics of Abandonment
Coda
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index