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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. List of figures
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. Introduction: Confronting emptiness in history
  9. 1. ‘Take my advice, go to Mongan’s Hotel’: barrenness and abundance in the late Victorian Connemara landscape
  10. 2. Amid the horrors of nature: ‘dead’ environments at the margins of the Russian empire
  11. 3. Empty spaces, aviation and the Brazilian nation: the metaphor of conquest in narratives of Edu Chaves’s cross-country flights in 1912
  12. 4. Looking over the ship railings: the colonial voyage and the empty ocean in Empire Marketing Board posters
  13. 5. Spectral figures: Edward Hopper’s empty Paris
  14. 6. Landscapes of loss: the semantics of empty spaces in contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction
  15. 7. Surveying the creative use of vacant space in London, c.1945–95
  16. 8. Urban prehistoric enclosures: empty spaces/busy places
  17. Index

List of figures

1.1

Map of Galway, with map of Ireland inset.

1.2

Mongan’s Hotel, Carna, Co. Galway, n.d.

3.1

Alfredo Storni: ‘Casos da semana’, O Malho, 16 March 1912, p. 28.

3.2

‘O maior “raid” da America do Sul. De S. Paulo ao Rio de Janeiro’, Gazeta de Noticias, 29 Apr. 1912, p. 1.

3.3

‘O maior “raid” da America do Sul’, Gazeta de Noticias, 30 Apr. 1912, p. 1.

3.4

‘O maior “raid” da America do Sul’, Gazeta de Noticias, 1 May 1912, p. 1.

3.5

‘O vôo S. Paulo-Rio. 548 kilometros em aeroplano’, A Imprensa, 30 Apr. 1912, p. 1.

3.6

‘O grande acontecimento do dia. Hoje o aviador Eduardo Chaves realiza o vôo de São Paulo ao Rio’, A Imprensa, 27 Apr. 1912, p. 1.

4.1

MacDonald Gill, Highways of Empire, poster, Empire Marketing Board, 1927.

4.2

W. McDowell, Mauritania, poster, Cunard, c.1920.

4.3

First class smoking room, Viceroy of India, designed by Hon. Elsie MacKay, photograph, 1929.

4.4

Section through ocean liner, Aquitania, poster, Cunard, c.1914.

4.5

Charles Pears, Gibraltar: The Empire’s Highway to India, poster, Empire Marketing Board, 1928.

4.6

Charles Pears, Bombay: The Empire’s Highway to India, poster, Empire Marketing Board, 1928.

4.7

Brézil-Plata, poster, South Atlantic Chargeurs Réunis, c.1928.

4.8

Charles Pears, There’s All the Health of the Sea in Fish: Caught by British Fishermen, poster, Empire Marketing Board, 1931.

5.1

Postcard of the Rue Auber, Paris, from Edward Hopper to Nyack, c.1906.

5.2

Edward Hopper, Stairway at 48 rue de Lille, Paris, 1906, oil on wood, 12 7/8 × 9 5/16 in. (32.7 × 23.7 cm).

5.3

Edward Hopper, Interior Courtyard at 48 rue de Lille, Paris, 1906, oil on composition board, 13 × 9 1/4 in. (33 × 23.5 cm).

5.4

Edward Hopper, Sketch of Paris Courtyard at 48 rue de Lille with Nude, c.1907, fabricated chalk, graphite pencil and grey wash on paper, 19 7/8 × 14 7/8 in (50.5 × 37.8 cm).

5.5

Edward Hopper, Le Louvre et la Seine, 1907, oil on canvas, 23 5/8 × 28 5/8 in. (60 × 72.7 cm).

5.6

Edward Hopper, The Louvre in a Thunderstorm, 1909, oil on canvas, 29 9/16 × 28 13/16 (59.8 × 73.2 cm).

5.7

Postcard of the Quai Voltaire booksellers, from Edward Hopper to Nyack, c.1907.

5.8

Edward Hopper, Les Etudiants de Paris, 1906–7, watercolour, brush and ink, and graphite pencil on paper, 19 3/4 × 14 5/8 in. (50.2 × 37.1 cm).

7.1

St. John’s churchyard, Wapping, from the air, 1922.

7.2

3 August 1970, St. John’s churchyard.

7.3

Front cover of McCullough, Meanwhile Gardens (London, 1988).

7.4

Map of ‘Meanwhile Gardens’ printed in McCullough, Meanwhile Gardens.

7.5

Planting plan of William Curtis Ecological Park.

7.6

William Curtis Ecological Park from the air.

7.7

Camley Street Natural Park from above, showing King’s Cross station and Regent’s canal.

7.8

Camley Street natural park looking towards north.

7.9

Hackney Grove Gardens ‘Work in Progress’, Jan. 1983.

7.10

Plan drawn for case study of ‘Greening City Sites: Good Practice in Urban Regeneration’, Department of the Environment, 1987.

8.1

The Sandy Road stone circle, reconstructed in its original form and location in a cul-de-sac in the town of Scone, Perth and Kinross, after housing built here in the 1960s caused complete excavation and temporary removal of the standing stones.

8.2

Pupils from Strathearn High School marking the route of the western ditch of the Neolithic Broich cursus, which runs beneath the school campus and playground.

8.3

The Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, in 2013.

8.4

Solar eclipse at Sighthill stone circle, 2015: for once, not an empty space.

8.5

The central stone of the Sighthill stone circle has increasingly come to be a focus for the memorialization of the deceased for one local family.

8.6

The reconstructed Balfarg henge, Fife – this view shows the entrance to the henge and one of the internal standing stones.

8.7

Henge Gardens, Glenrothes.

8.8

Wear marks indicating the use of the timber posts at Balfarg henge for goal posts.

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