1. See Robert Freestone, review of Of Planning and Planting: the Making of British Colonial Cities (1997) by Robert Home, Journal of Historical Geography 24, 3 (1998): 381.
2. Another work, Imperial Cities: Landscape Display and Identity (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), edited by Felix Driver and David Gilbert, is also a view largely from the metropole. While useful, this work does not adequately address the violent or oppressive exigencies of settler colonies or their cities, nor the requirement for Indigenous peoples of formerly colonised societies to write of their own historical conditions, giving their perspectives on space and empire. On problems with cultural geography see, for example,
3. Catherine Nash, ‘Cultural Geography in Crisis’, Antipode (March 2002): 321–5.
4. Jay T. Johnson et al., ‘Creating Indigenous Geographies: Embracing Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledges and Rights’, Geographical Research 45, 2 (2007): 117, 118.
5. For important new work see, for example, Daniel Clayton, ‘Critical and Imperial Geographies’, in Handbook of Cultural Geography, ed. Kay Anderson, Mona Domosh, Steve Piles and Nigel Thrift (London: Sage Publications, 2003), 354–68; and