ABSTRACT
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, empire came to Europeans in tangible and everyday ways through architecture. As the networks between metropoles and colonies formed intricate imperial spaces, the buildings that facilitated and symbolised these networks formed imperial places: the meaningful nodes within these networks that confronted and involved Europeans with modern imperialism. Imperial places in Europe contributed to the formation of an imperial culture by anchoring imperial networks to the local, mostly urban, context in Europe. Like the metaphorical tip of the iceberg, the places identified in this study were inherently part of an imperial whole that transcended their direct local environments. Imperial places thus helped Europeans construct and experience the idea that they lived in an imperial world in which their societies stood at the apex of power.
