Cities of Whiteness

Wendy S. Shaw is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of New South Wales. Her research interests include the meanings of heritage in Australia and other Pacific places, the impacts of high-rise developments, and the status of Indigenous peoples in Australia and around the world.

• List of Figures. 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.

"Shaw does a fascinating job combining the literature on urban transformation with whiteness studies and creating a unique reading of Sydney as a space of white privilege … .The book is well researched and tells a fascinating story of racialized urban change." (Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, December 2008)