ABSTRACT

Given all the uncomfortableness, fears, shame, and troubles associated with memories of Australian carceral history, it is surprising that Australians are interested in reusing sites of decommissioned prisons at all. The uncomfortable past juxtaposes basic ideas of preservation, not to mention the further transformation of old gaols to places for comfortable residences and shops. Her Majesty’s Prison Pentridge is used here as a case study, where the exact site of a century-and-a-half of notoriously brutal incarceration and source of uncomfortableness to the local community was transformed to residential and mixed-use developments. Perhaps due to those memories slipping away, or probably due to pragmatic economic opportunities allowed by urban consolidation policies, such acute transformation became possible. This paper joins an unsettled debate surrounding the phenomena of converting old prisons to contemporary buildings and shops inhabited by non-prisoners using Pentridge as a recent example.

摘要

考虑到与澳大利亚大肠癌史相关的所有不舒服，恐惧，羞耻和烦恼，令人惊讶的是，澳大利亚人对重新使用退役监狱的场所很感兴趣。过去令人不舒服的过去与保存的基本理念并列，更不用说将旧监狱进一步改造成舒适的住宅和商店的场所了。女王je下的监狱彭特里奇（Pentridge）被用作案例研究，在那里，一个半世纪臭名昭著的残酷监禁和使当地社区感到不舒服的确切地点被转变为住宅和混合用途发展。也许是由于那些记忆消失了，或者可能是由于城市整合政策所允许的务实的经济机会，这种急剧的转变成为可能。