Picking up from Nikki Linsell’s attack on ‘Architecture for Humanity’ in Architects Journal 241.05 (06.02.15: p.57 – ‘To Hell with Good Intentions’), I read that critical regionalism is viewed by Jane Jacobs as a “revisionary form of imperialist nostalgia ... ” I find this is a quotation from ‘Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City’ (Routledge, 2002 - p.15), and appreciate that a ‘post-colonialist’ viewpoint offers another important perspective on cultural an spatial processes. In her chapter on ‘(Post)Colonial Spaces,’ the author asserts that
“the ‘postcolonialisms’ described hereafter are not always neatly ‘against’ colonialism’s residual and revived formations, part of the seductive realm of resistance. I do not deny the possibility of resistance but instead I suggest that it is one articulation of many which work against or slip outside of colonialism. The colonised engage not only in resistance but also in complicity, conciliation, even blithe disregard. It is a revisionary form of imperialist nostalgia that defines the colonised as always engaged in conscious work against the ‘core’. ”