ABSTRACT
This chapter is another riff on the theme of globalization, the city, and modernity, but one that uses, at first blush, an unlikely case study. I draw upon a small town in the middle of Australia (Figure 9.1). It developed as a control center in the incorporation of interior Australia during the second wave of globalization in the late nineteenth century when the context was one of imperial authority, colonial control, and Anglo-Celtic Victorian cultural values. It re-emerges during the current wave of late modern globalization in new spatial assemblages of global nation-city and in a very different late modern/postmodern aesthetic. This case study also shows how the Late Modern Wave of Globalization shapes and is shaped in turn by changing aesthetics.
