Key reading:
- Matti Hannikainen, The Greening of London, 1920-2000 (Routledge, 2016)
- James Greenhalgh, Reconstructing Modernity: space, power and governance in mid-twentieth century British cities (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2017)
- Christopher P. Rodgers, Eleanor A. Straughton, Angus J. L. Winchester and Margherita Pieraccini, Contested Common Land: Environmental Governance Past and Present (Routledge, Abingdon, 2011)
- Stuart Hodkinson, ‘The New Urban Enclosures’, City, 16: 5 (2000), 500-518
- Guy Shrubsole, Who Owns England? (Harper Collins, 2019)
- Brett Christophers, The New Enclosures: the appropriation of public land in Neoliberal Britain (Verso, 2019)
- James Winter, Secure from Rash Assault: Sustaining the Victorian Environment (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999)
- Iain Channing, The Police and the Expansion of Public Order Law in Britain, 1829-2014 (Routledge, 2015)
- Antonia Layard, ‘Public space: property, lines, interruptions’, Journal of Law, Property and Society, 2: 1 (2016), 1-47
- Peter Clark, Jean-Luc Pinot and Richard Rodger, eds, The European City and Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St Petersburg, 1850-2000 (Routledge, 2006)
Websites and online resources:
- Who Owns England? – https://whoownsengland.org/ and http://map.whoownsengland.org/
- National Library of Scotland Maps – https://maps.nls.uk
- DB Estate – on Cressingham Gardens, Lambeth – http://www.db-estate.co.uk/
- Municipal Dreams by John Broughton: @MunicipalDreams and https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/
- LCC Municipal: https://lccmunicipal.com/ and @lccmunicipal
- Defra ‘Magic Map’: https://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx
- Department of Environment register of common land in England (2015): https://data.gov.uk/dataset/05c61ecc-efa9-4b7f-8fe6-9911afb44e1a/database-of-registered-common-land-in-england
- ‘Sold from under us’: https://council-sell-off.thebureauinvestigates.com/
- Matteo Tiratelli, database of riots in Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow, 1800-1939: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=853781
- Right to Roam campaign by Guy Shrubsole and Nick Hayes: https://www.righttoroam.org.uk/
Image/archive collections (as currently available):
- University of Sheffield J R James Archive: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrjamesarchive/albums/
- Manchester Archives Plus : https://www.flickr.com/photos/55918222@N02/
- Lambeth Archives Landmark image collection: https://boroughphotos.org/lambeth/
- Britain From Above – Aerofilms collection of photos 1930s-50s: https://britainfromabove.org.uk/
- Timepix images of Ordnance Survey revision point photos: https://www.timepix.uk/map
- Vision of Britain: Survey of London – https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/survey-london
- Imperial War Museum – Ministry of Works plans, e.g. of Stevenage: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205132811
- Picture Sheffield: https://www.picturesheffield.com/
- Town and Country Planning Association online archive: https://archive.tcpa.org.uk/archive/journals
Current and relatively recent reports on public space etc:
- London Assembly report on London’s Public Space, 2011: https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/gla_migrate_files_destination/Public%20space%20June%202011%20Webme.pdf
- City of London Open Space strategy, 2014: https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/environment-and-planning/planning/heritage-and-design/Documents/open-spaces-strategy.pdf
- House of Commons, Public Parks committee report, 2017: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmcomloc/45/45.pdf
- Landscape Research Group, cadastral maps of landownership: https://landscaperesearch.org/funded-project/2017-landed-cadastral-maps/
Dimitrios Bormpoudakis, Joseph Tzanopoulos, Evangelia Apostolopoulou, ‘The rise and fall of biodiversity offsetting in the Lodge Hill large-scale housing development, South East England’, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space (2019): https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/FBIUDWFWUGY9QRTVV8GG/full
- Andrew Smith, ‘Paying for parks. Ticketed events and the commercialisation of public space’, Leisure Studies, 13: 5 (2018), 533-46 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02614367.2018.1497077
- Andrew Smith, ‘Justifying and resisting public park commercialisation: The battle for Battersea Park’, European Urban and Regional Studies, 26:2 (2019), https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0969776418767731 Covid and public space:
- British Medical Journal blog, 3 July 2020: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/07/03/covid-19-has-highlighted-the-inadequate-and-unequal-access-to-high-quality-green-spaces/
- Government advice on management of open spaces: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/safer-public-places-urban-centres-and-green-spaces-covid-19
- Stuart Dunn blogpost on desire lines: https://stuartdunn.blog/2020/10/04/paths-desire-lines-and-covid-19-some-observations-and-pictures/
GIS resources:
Handily listed by Alasdair Rae of Sheffield University:
Alasdair Rae’s interactive map of Green Belt: https://alasdair.carto.com/viz/c1925a82-9670-11e4-ab1a-0e853d047bba/embed_map/
and http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2018/07/green-belt-atlas-version-4.html
Alasdair Rae’s map of land cover: https://figshare.com/articles/A_Land_Cover_Atlas_of_the_United_Kingdom_Document_/5266495
Printed primary sources:
- J. J. Sexby, Municipal Parks, Gardens and Open Spaces of London (1905), https://ia802609.us.archive.org/31/items/municipalparksga00sexbrich/municipalparksga00sexbrich.pdf (PDF)
- Medical Officers of Health reports into sanitary conditions in London boroughs, c.1848-1972: Wellcome collection, https://wellcomelibrary.org/moh/
- Robert Hunter, The Preservation of Open Spaces and of Footpaths, and other rights of way (2nd edn, Eyre and Spottiswood, London, 1902): https://archive.org/details/preservationofop00huntuoft
- Six Essays on Commons Preservation, by Henry W Peek (London, 1867), https://archive.org/details/sixessaysoncomm00peekgoog/page/n7/mode/2up
LSE collections of digitised material:
- Women’s Suffrage: https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/suffrage
- Street Life in London, 1877: https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/streetlifeinlondon
Black Abolitionists interactive map: http://frederickdouglassinbritain.com/Map:Abolitionists/
Webpages and online articles:
- https://architectsforsocialhousing.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/mapping-londons-estate-regeneration-programme/
- Norwood Society: https://www.norwoodsociety.co.uk/
- Doreen Massey, ‘Landscape/Space/Politics/An Essay’, https://thefutureoflandscape.wordpress.com/landscapespacepolitics-an-essay/
- on footpath registration: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/04/memory-lanes-the-ramblers-trying-to-save-10000-lost-footpaths
on the privatisation of public spaces:
- https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/aug/31/londons-parks-accused-of-creeping-privatisation-of-public-spaces
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/01/uk-parks-protection-organised-fun-councils-peace
- https://www.architectural-review.com/10007202.article
- https://medium.com/s/story/backlash-to-apples-privatized-town-squares-is-growing-97cb4d1e9da3
- Gillian Darley on Rathbone Place: https://www.bdonline.co.uk/comment/gaddafis-paranoia-is-alive-and-well-in-fitzrovia/5095425.article
- Corse Present blog post on urban enclosures and edgelands: https://corsepresentblog.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/edgelands-birthing-a-new-lore/
Social housing/class divides/squatting and public space:
- Anna Minton on gentrification and place-making: https://placesjournal.org/article/the-price-of-regeneration-in-london/
- Pasttense blog: https://pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/
- Class Walls – Cutteslowe, Downham and roadworks…
- ‘We All Live in Tolmers Square’ – Bartlett 100 blog: https://bartlett100.com/article/we-all-live-in-tolmers-square
- Lucy Finchett-Maddock, Protest, Property and the Commons: Performances of Law and Resistance (Abingdon, Routledge, 2016)
Contemporary radical geography:
- Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, ‘Capitalist Formations of Enclosure: Space and the Extinction of the Commons’, Antipode, Vol. 47 No. 4 (2015) 999–1020
- Darshan Vigneswaran, Kurt Iveson and Setha Low, ‘Problems, Publicity and Public Space: a Resurgent Debate’, Environment and Planning A, 49: 3 (2017), 496-502 (and all of that issue – special issue on public space)
- Margaret Kohn, ‘Privatization and Protest: Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Toronto, and the Occupation of Public Space in a Democracy’, Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 11, No. 1 (March 2013), pp. 99-110
- Margaret Kohn, Brave New Neighbourhoods: the privatisation of public space (Routledge, 2004)
- Margaret Kohn, The Life and Death of the Urban Commonwealth (Oxford, OUP, 2016)
- Florian Langstraat and Rianne Van Melik, ‘Challenging the ‘End of Public Space’: A Comparative Analysis of Publicness in British and Dutch Urban Spaces, Journal of Urban Design, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2013, 429–448
- Don Mitchell, ‘People’s Park again: on the end and ends of public space’, Environment and Planning A, 2017, Vol. 49(3) 503–518
- Antonia Layard, ‘Property paradigms and place-making: a right to the city; a right to the street?’, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, Vol. 3 No. 2, September 2012, pp. 254–272
- Antonia Layard, ‘Public space: property, lines, interruptions,’ Journal of Law, Property and Society, 2 (2016)
- Antonia Layard, ‘Shopping in the Public Realm: a Law of Place’, Journal of Law and Society, 37: 3 (2010)
- Don Mitchell, The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space (The Guildford Press, New York, 2003)
- L. Finchett; Maddock, Protest, Property and the Commons: Performances of Law and Resistance (2015)
- Darshan Vigneswaran, Kurt Iveson and Setha Low, ‘Problems, Publicity and public space: a resurgent debate’, Environment and Planning A, 49: 3 (2017), 496-502
- Don Mitchell, ‘People’s Park again: on the end and ends of public space’, Environment and Planning A, 49: 3 (2017), 503-38
- Don Mitchell, ‘People’s Park: Definitions of the Public, and Democracy’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 85: 1 (Mar., 1995)
- Mike Davis, City of Quartz: excavating the future in Los Angeles (1990)
- Michael Sorkin, Variations on a Theme Park: the New American City and the End of Public Space (1992)
- L Staeheli and Don Mitchell, The People’s Property? Power, Politics and the Public (New York, 2008)
- J Kayden, Privately Owned Public Space: the New York Experience (2002)
- N Fyfe, ed, Images of the Street: Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space (1998)
- M Akkar, ‘The changing ‘publicness’ of contemporary public spaces: a case study of the Grey’s Monument Area, Newcastle Upon Tyne’, Urban Design International, 10: 2 (2001), 95-113
- T Banerjee, ‘The future of public space: beyond invented streets and inverted places’, Journal of the American Planning Association, 67: 1 (2001), 9-24
- C. De Magalhaes, ‘Public space and the contracting out of publicness’, Journal of Urban Design, 15: 4 (2010), 559-574
- B Fraser, ‘Madrid’s Retiro Park as a Publicly-Private Space and the Spatial Problems of Spatial Theory’, Social and Cultural Geography, 8: 5 (2007), 673-700
- D Madden, ‘Revisiting the end of public space: assembling the public’, City and Community, 9: 2 (2010), 187-207
- R Paddison and J Sharp, ‘Questioning the end of public space: reclaiming control of local banal spaces’, Scottish Geographical Journal, 123: 2 (2007), 87-106
- A Madanipour, Public and Private Spaces of the City (2003)
- G. Macleod, ‘From urban entrepreneurialism to a revanchist city? On the spatial injustices of Glasgow’s renaissance’, Antipode, 34: 3 (2002), 602-24
- David Crouch and Gavin Parker, ‘Digging-up Utopia? Space, practice and land use heritage’, Geoforum, 34 (2003), 395–408
- Shelley Egoz, Jala Makhzouma and Gloria Pungetti, eds., The Right to landscape: contesting landscape and human rights (Ashgate, 2011)
- Gavin Parker, Citizenships, Contingency and the Countryside: rights, culture, land and the environment (Routledge, 2006)
Shelley Egoz, Karsten Jørgensen, Deni Ruggeri, eds., Defining Landscape Democracy: A Path to Spatial Justice (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2018)
- Brett Christophers, ‘Geographical knowledges and neoliberal tensions: compulsory land purchase in the context of contemporary urban redevelopment’, Environment and Planning A 2010, volume 42, pages 856-873
Enclosure and common rights:
- Christopher P. Rodgers, Eleanor A. Straughton, Angus J. L. Winchester and Margherita Pieraccini, Contested Common Land: Environmental Governance Past and Present (Routledge, Abingdon, 2011)
- Christopher Rodgers, ‘Environmental Management of Common Land: towards a new legal framework?’, Journal of Environmental Law, Vol 11 No 2 (1999)
- Nicola Whyte, Inhabiting the Landscape: Place, Custom and Memory, 1500-1800 (Windgather Press, 2009)
- Wendy Darby, Landscape and Identity: Geographies of Nation and Class in England (Bloomsbury, 2000)
- Peter Linebaugh, Stop, Thief! The Commons, Enclosures and Resistance (PM Press, 2014)
- Ben Cowell, ‘The Commons Preservation Society and the Campaign for Berkhamsted Common, 1866–70’, Rural History, 13: 2 (2002)
- David M. George, ‘The Plumstead Common Riots of 1876: a study in mid-Victorian protest’, The London Journal, 36: 3 (2011), 195-210;
- Robert Allen, ‘The battle for the common: politics and populism in mid-Victorian Kentish London’, Social History, 22: 1 (1997), 61
- Iain Taylor, ‘Pressure Groups, Contested ‘land-scapes’ and the politics of ridicule in Sevenoaks, Kent, 1881-85’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 21: 3 (2016), 322-45,
- David Kinngray, ‘Rights, “Riot” and Ritual: the Knowle Park Access Dispute, Sevenoaks, Kent, 1883-85’, Rural History, 5: 1 (1994), 63-79.
- Ian D. Rotherham, ed., Cultural Severance and the Environment: the ending of traditional customary practice on commons and landscapes managed in common (Springer, London, 2013)
- J. W. Aitchison, ‘The Commons and Wastes of England and Wales, 1958-1989’, Area (1990)
- John Aitchison, ‘The town and village greens of England and Wales’, Landscape Research, 21: 1 (1996), 89
- Jesse Goldstein, ‘Terra Economica: Waste and the Production of Enclosed Nature’, Antipode, 45: 2 (2013), 357-375
- Brian Short, ‘Conservation, class and custom: lifespace and conflict in a 19th century Forest environment’, Rural History, 10: 2 (1999), 127-54
- Brian Short, ‘Environmental politics, custom and personal testimony: memory and lifespace on the late Victorian Ashdown Forest, Sussex’, Journal of Historical Geography, 30 (2004) 470–495
- Briony McDonagh and Carl Griffin, ‘Occupy! historical geographies of property, protest and the commons, 1500-1850’, Journal of Historical Geography, 53 (2016), 1-10
- Alex Jeffrey, Colin McFarlane and Alex Vasudevan, ‘Rethinking enclosure: space, subjectivity and the commons’, Antipode, 44: 4 (2012)
- R. W. Hoyle, ‘The enclosure of Preston Moor and the creation of moor park in Preston’, Northern History, xlix (2012), 281-
- Christopher Rogers, ‘Custom and common right: waste land, enclosure and social change in west Lancashire’, Agricultural History Review, xli (1993)
- Sara Birtles, ‘Common land, poor relief and enclosure’, Past & Present, clxv (1999), 74-106
- J. Langton, ‘Forest fences: enclosures in a pre-enclosure landscape’, landscape history, xxxv (2014), 5-30
- Leigh Shaw-Taylor, ‘Labourers, Cows, Common Rights and Parliamentary Enclosure: The Evidence of Contemporary Comment c. 1760-1810’, Past & Present, 171 (2001), 95-126
- Michael Williams, ‘The Enclosure and Reclamation of Waste Land in England and Wales in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 51 (1970), 55-69
- Leonard Baker, ‘Human and Animal Trespass as Protest: Space and Continuity in Rural Somerset and Dorset’, History Workshop Journal, ? (2019)
- H. R. French, ‘Urban common rights, enclosure and the market: Clitheroe Town Moors, 1764–1802’, Agricultural History Review, 51: 1 (), 40–68
- Jane Humphries, ‘Enclosures, Common Rights, and Women: The Proletarianization of Families in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries’, Economic History Review, 50: 1 (1990), 17-42
- Carl Griffin, ‘Becoming Private Property: Custom, Law, and the Geographies of ‘Ownership’ in 18th- and 19th-Century England’, Environment and Planning A, 42:3 (2012), 747-62
- Timothy Shakesheff, Rural conflict, crime and protest: Herefordshire, 1800-1860 (2003)
- Mark Bowden, Graham Brown and Nicky Smith, An Archaeology of Town Commons in England (English Heritage, 2009)
- Brodie Waddell, ‘Policing the Commons in the Vale of Yorkshire, c1550-1850’, in Ian D Rotherham, ed., Cultural Severance and the Environment (2013)
- Matthew Cragoe and Briony McDonagh, ‘Parliamentary enclosure, vermin and the cultural life of English parishes, 1750-1850’, Continuity and Change, 28: 1 (2013)
- Briony McDonagh, ‘Landscape, territory and common rights in medieval East Yorkshire’, Landscape History, ? (2019)
- Briony McDonagh and David Crouch, ‘Turf Wars: conflict and co-operation in the management of Wallingfen, East Yorkshire, 1281-1781’, Agricultural History Review, 64: 11 (2016), 133-56
- Leigh Shaw-Taylor, ‘The management of common land in the lowlands of southern England, c1500-1850’, in M. DeMoor , eds, The Management of Common Land in North West Europe (2002)
- Rex C. Russell, ‘Parliamentary enclosure, common rights and social
change: Evidence from the parts of Lindsey in Lincolnshire’, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 27:4 (2000), 54-111 - Elaine Tan, ‘ “The bull is half the herd”: property rights and enclosures in England, 1750–1850’, Explorations in Economic History, 39 (2002) 470–489
The politics of access:
- David Hey, ‘Kinder Scout and the Legend of the Mass Trespass’, Agricultural History Review, 59, II (2011), pp. 199–216, https://www.bahs.org.uk/AGHR/ARTICLES/59_25_Hey.pdf
- Claire Griffiths, Labour and the Countryside: The Politics of Rural Britain 1918-1939 (OUP 2007)
- Harvey Taylor, A Claim on the Countryside (Edinburgh 1997)
- David Dee, ‘‘Wandering Jews’? British Jewry, outdoor recreation and the far-left, 1900–1939’, Labor History, Vol. 55, No. 5 (2014), 563–579
- John Sheail, ‘The Access to Mountains Act 1939: An Essay in Compromise’, Rural History, 21: 1 (2010), 59-74
Current privatisation/gentrification of public space:
- Antonia Layard, ‘Privatising land in England,’ Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law, 11: 2 (2019)
- Antonia Layard, ‘Planning Law and the Human Rights Act 1998’, Journal of Environmental Law, Volume 13, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 349–391
- Antonia Layard, ‘Shopping in the Public Realm: A Law of Place’, Journal of Law and Society, 37: 3 (2010)
- Antonia Layard, ‘ Public Space: Property, Lines, Interruptions’, Journal of
Law, Property and Society , 2(1), (2016), 1-47 - Antonia Layard, ‘Property paradigms and place-making: a right to the city; a right to the street’, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 3: 2 (2012), 254-272
- K. J. Brown, ‘The Hyper Regulation of Public Space: The Use and Abuse of Public Spaces Protection Orders in England and Wales’, Legal Studies, 37(3) (2017) 543-568
- A. Barker, ‘Mediated Conviviality and the Urban Social Order: Reframing the Regulation of Public Space’, British Journal of Criminology, 57: 4 (2017)
- C. Little ‘The ‘Mosquito’ and the transformation of British public space,’ Journal of Youth Studies, 18:2 (2015)
- J. Coaffee ‘Normalising Exceptional Public Space Security: The Spatial Fix of the Olympic Carceral’ in M. De Backer at al. (Eds.) Order and Conflict In Public Space (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016)
- P. L. Doan and H. Higgins, ‘The Demise of Queer Space? Resurgent Gentrification and the Assimilation of LGBT Neighborhoods’, Journal of Planning Education and Research, 31: 1 (2011)
- E. Anderson ‘‘The White Space”’ Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 1: 1 (2015)
Theory: new materialism
- Gerardo del Cerro Santamaria, ‘Planning new Materiality and Actor-Network Theory: a review essay’, Society + Space, 15 October 2019, reviewing R. A. Beauregard, Planning Matter: Acting with Things (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2015)
- Hans Schouwenburg, ‘Back to the Future? History, material culture and new materialism’, International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, 3: 1 (2015), 59-72
- Frank Trentman, ‘Materiality in the future of history: things, practices and politics’, Journal of British Studies, 48: 2 (2009)
- Chris Otter, ‘Locating matter: the place of materiality in urban history’, in Tony Bennet and Patrick Joyce, eds., Material Powers: Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn (London, 2010), 38-59
Local histories and a sense of place:
- Gillian Tindall, The Fields Beneath: the History of One London Village (1977; paperback ed. Eland, London, 2010)
- K. D. M. Snell, Parish and Belonging: Community, Identity and Welfare in England and Wales, 1700-1950 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006)
- Michael Woods, ‘Engaging the global countryside: globalisation, hybridity and the reconstitution of rural space’, Progress in Human Geography, 31: 4 (2007), 485-507
- Tony Parker, The People of Providence: a housing estate and some of its inhabitants (Eland, London, 1983)
- Lionel Rose, ‘Rogues and Vagabonds’ : Vagrant Underworld in Britain 1815-1985
- Brodie Waddell, ‘Governing England through the manor courts, 1550-1850’, Historical Journal, 55: 2 (2012), 279-315
Locales:
Sheffield
- Ian Taylor, Karen Evans and Penny Fraser, eds., A Tale of Two Cities: a study in Manchester and Sheffield (Routledge, London, 1996)
- Sheffield as it is (Sheffield, 1852)
- Robert Eadon Leader, Sheffield in the 18th century
- Dennis Smith, Conflict and Compromise: Class Formation in English Society 1830-1914 (Routledge, Abingdon, 1982)
- Richard Thomas Simmons, ‘Planning Industrial Development: the Norfolk Estate, Sheffield, 1800-1914’, Planning Perspectives, 12: 4 (1997)
- J. H. Stainton, The Making of Sheffield, 1865-1914 (1924)
- William Hampton, Democracy and Community: a study of politics in Sheffield (1970)
- Larry Bennett, Neighborhood Politics: Chicago and Sheffield (Routledge, 1997)
- Herbert Hawson, Sheffield: the Growth of a City, 1893-1926 (1968)
- Rupert Hebblethwaite, ‘The municipal housing programme in Sheffield before 1914’, Architectural History, 30 (1987), 143-79
- Tim Willis, ‘Contributing to a real socialist commonwealth: municipal socialism and health care in Sheffield (1918-1930)‘, in Der Munizipalsozialismus in Europa /Le socialisme municipal en Europe, eds, Uwe Kühl (Institut Historique Allemand Paris De Gruyter, 2001)
Croydon
- Nicholas Goddard, ‘Sanitate Crescamus: Water Supply, Sewage Disposal and Environmental Values in a Victorian Suburb’, in Bill Luckin et all, Resources of the City: Contributions to an Environmental History of Modern Europe (Routledge, 2005)
- Oliver Marriott, The Property Boom (Hamish Hamilton, 1967)
- J. N. Morris, Religion and Urban Change: Croydon, 1840-1914 (RHS, Boydell Press, 1992)
- E. H. Hare and G. K. Shaw, Mental Health on a New Housing Estate (Oxford University Press, 1965)
- J. N. Morris, ‘A disappearing crowd? Collective Action in late 19th century Croydon,’ Southern History
- Dan’s reading list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jo46SkWYaljMU041LqT4kNz2BOxKlQvhmWvAlw2F25c/edit?usp=sharing
Stevenage
- Bob Mullan, Stevenage Ltd: aspects of the planning and politics of Stevenage New Town, 1945-78 (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980)
- Eric Claxton, The Hidden Stevenage (The Book Guild, Lewes, 1989)
- Harold Orlans, Utopia Ltd: the story of the English New Town of Stevenage (Yale, New Haven, 1953)
- Jon Lawrence, Me Me Me? the search for community in post-war England (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Urban improvement and gentrification:
- Nicholas Goddard, ‘Sanitate Crescamus: Water Supply, Sewage Disposal and Environmental Values in a Victorian Suburb’, in Bill Luckin et all, Resources of the City: Contributions to an Environmental History of Modern Europe (Routledge, 2005)
- Henry W Lawrence, ‘The Greening of the Squares of London: Transformation of Urban Landscapes and Ideals’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 83: 1 (1993), 90-118
- H. L. Malchow, ‘Public gardens and social action in late Victorian London’, Victorian Studies, 29 (1985), 97-124
- F. H. Aalen, ‘Lord Meath, city improvement and social imperialism’, Planning Perspectives, 4 (1989), 127-152
The ‘civilising’ of popular custom debate:
- A. Donajgrodzki, ed, Social Control in Nineteenth Century Britain (London, Croom Helm, 977);
- Robert Storch, ed., Popular Culture and Custom in Nineteenth Century England (London, Croom Helm, 1982);
- R. W. Malcolmson, Popular Recreation in English Society, 1700-1850 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1973);
- Alun Howkins, ‘The Taming of Whitsun: the changing face of a nineteenth-century rural holiday’, in Eileen Yeo and Steven Yeo, eds., Popular Culture and Class Conflict, 1590-1914 (Brighton, Harvester Press, 1981).
Robert Storch, ‘The Policeman as Domestic Missionary: Urban Discipline and Popular Culture in Northern England, 1850-1880’, Journal of Social History, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Summer, 1976), pp. 481-509
- Peter Bailey, Leisure and Class in Victorian England: rational recreation and the contest for control, 1830-1885 (London, Routledge, 1978)
- J. M. Golby and A. W. Purdue, The Civilisation of the Crowd: Popular Culture in England, 1750-1900 (London, Batsford, 1984)
- Andy Croll, ‘Street Disorder, Surveillance and Shame: Regulating Behaviour in the Public Spaces of the late Victorian British Town’, Social History, 24: 3 (1999), 250-68
- David Churchill, Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City: the Police and the Public (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017)
Leisure and associations:
- Andrzej Olechnowicz, ‘Unemployed workers, enforced leisure and education for the ‘right use of leisure’ in Britain in the 1930s’, Labour History Review, 70 (2005), 27-52
- J. K. Walton, The British Seaside
- Mike Huggins and Jack Williams, Sport and the English, 1918-1939 (Abingdon, 2006)
- Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, ‘Keep fit and play the game: George VI, outdoor recreation and social cohesion in interwar Britain’, Social History, 11: 1 (2014), 111-29
- Stephen Jones, ‘State Intervention in Sport and Leisure in Britain between the Wars’, Journal of Contemporary History, 22, 1 (1987), 163-182
- Robert Snape, ‘The New Leisure, Voluntarism and Social Reconstruction in Inter-War Britain’, Contemporary British History, 29 (2015), 51-83
- Mark Freeman, ‘From ‘character-training’ to ‘personal growth’: the early history of Outward Bound 1941-1965′, History of Education, 40: 1 (2011), 21-43
- Robert Snape and Helen Pussard, ‘Theorisations of leisure in inter-war Britain’, Leisure Studies, 32: 1 (2013), 1-18
Ecological gentrification:
- Sarah Dooling, ‘Ecological Gentrification: A Research Agenda Exploring Justice in the City’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33: 3 (2009) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00860.x
- Sarah Dooling, ‘Ecological gentrification: Re-negotiating justice in the city’, Critical Planning, 15 (2008): https://criticalplanning.squarespace.com/volume-15
- Hamil Pearsall, Isabelle Anguelovski, ‘Contesting and Resisting Environmental Gentrification: Responses to New Paradoxes and Challenges for Urban Environmental Justice, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.5153/sro.3979?journalCode=sroa
- Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature: squatters, poachers, thieves and the hidden history of American conservation (2003)
Public space, parks and politics:
- Lynn Hollen Lees, ‘Urban public space and imagined communities in the 1980s and 1990s’, Journal of Urban History, 20: 4 (1994), 443-465
- John Michael Roberts, ‘Spatial Governance and working-class public spheres: the case of a Chartist Demonstration at Hyde Park’, Journal of Historical Sociology, 14:3 (2001), 308-36
- P. T. Smith, Policing Victorian London: political policing, public order and the London Metropolitan Police (1985)
- Peter Gurney, ‘The politics of public space in Manchester, 1896-1919’, Manchester Region History Review, 11 (1997), 12-23, http://web.archive.org/web/20070221172231/http://www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk:80/pubs/pdf/mrhr_11_gurney.pdf
- Iain Taylor, ‘Pressure Groups, Contested Land-Spaces and the Politics of Ridicule in Sevenoaks, Kent, 1881-85’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 21: 3 (2016), 322-45
- Antony Taylor, ‘Commons-stealers, land grabbers and jerry builders: space, popular radicalism and the politics of public access in London, 1848-1880’, International Review of Social History, 40 (1995), 383-407
- David Killingray, ‘Rights, Riot and Ritual: the Knole Park Access Dispute, Sevenoaks, Kent, 1883-5’, Rural History, 5: 1 (1994), 63-79
- Neil McMaster, ‘The Battle for Mousehold Heath, 1857-1884: Popular Politics and the Victorian public park’, Past & Present, 127 (1990), 117-54
- R. H. Hoyle, ‘The Enclosure of Preston Moor and the Creation of Moor Park in Preston’, Northern History, xlix: 2 (2012)
- Sheridan Gilley, ‘The Garibaldi Riots of 1862’, Historical Journal, 16: 4 (1973), 697-732
- Nan H Dreker, ‘the virtuous and the verminous: turn of the century moral panics in London’s public parks’, Albion, 29:2 (1997), 246-267
- Robert Henderson,’The Hyde Park Rally of 9 March 1890: a British response to Russian atrocities’, European Review of History, 21: 4 (2014), 451-66
Public order and public space conflicts:
- Lisa Keller, Triumph of Order: democracy and public space in New York and London (New York, Columbia University Press, 2010)
- Edward Royle, Radicals, Secularists and Republicans: Popular Freethought in Britain, 1866-1915 (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1980)
- Malcolm Chase, ‘The popular movement for parliamentary reform in Provincial Britain during the 1860s’, Parliamentary History (2017)
- James Vernon, Politics and the People: a study in political culture, c1815-1867 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993)
‘Greening’, preservation, parks and garden cities:
Green Belts:
- Matti Hannikainen, The Greening of London, 1920-2000 (Routledge, 2016)
- Peter Clark, Jean-Luc Pinot and Richard Rodger, eds, The European City and Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St Petersburg, 1850-2000 (Routledge, 2006)
- Fabiano Lemes de Oliveria, ‘Green Wedges: origins and development in Britain’, PP, 29:3 (2014), 357-379
- Martin J. Elson, Green Belts: Conflict Mediation in the Urban Fringe (Heinemann, London, 1986)
- M. Amati and M. Yokohari, ‘Temporal changes and local variations in the functions of London’s Green Belt’, Landscape and Urban Planning, 75:1-2 (2006), 125-42
- R. J. C. Munton, London’s Green Belt: containment in practice (London, Allen and Unwin, 1983)
- Marco Amati and Makoto Yokohari, ‘The establishment of the London Green Belt: reaching consensus over purchasing land’, Journal of Planning History, 6: 4 (2007)
- D. Thomas, London’s Green Belt (London: Faber and Faber, 1970)
- Marco Amati and Makoto Yokohari, ‘The actions of the landowners, government and planners in establishing the London Green Belt of the 1930s’, Planning History, 26: 1-2 (2004), 4-12
- G.E. Cherry and A. Rogers , Rural Change and Planning (London: E&FN Spon, 1996),
urban greening
- Aya Sakai, ‘Re-assessing’ London’s squares: the development of preservation policy
- 1880–1931′, Town Planning Review, 82: 6 (2011)
- Tim Brown, ‘ The making of urban ‘healtheries’: the transformation of cemeteries and burial grounds in late-Victorian East London’, Journal of Historical Geography, 42 (2013) 12–23
- Kermit C Parsons and David Schuyler, eds, From Garden City to Green City: the Legacy of Ebeneezer Howard (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)
- Henry W Lawrence, ‘The Greening of the Squares of London: Transformation of Urban Landscapes and Ideals’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 83: 1 (1993), 90-118
- Nan H. Dreher, ‘The Virtuous and the Verminous: Turn-of-the-Century Moral Panics in London’s Public Parks’, Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 246-267
- Hazel Conway, People’s Parks: the design and development of Victorian parks in Britain (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991)
- H. L. Malchow, ‘ Public Gardens and Social Action in Late Victorian London‘, Victorian Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 97-124
- Barbara Bogusz, ‘Regulating public/private interests in town and village greens’, International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 5: 1 (2013), 21-39
- John Aitchison, ‘The town and village greens of England and Wales’, Landscape Research, 21: 1 (1996), 89
- Donald McGillivray and Jane Holder, ‘Locality, environment and law: the case of town and village greens’, International Journal of Law in Context, 3: 1 (2007), 1-17.
- Lucie Glasheen, ‘Bombsites, Adventure Playgrounds and the Reconstruction of London: Playing with Urban Space in Hue and Cry’, The London Journal, (2018), 1-21
- Carole O’Reilly, ‘A blot on the landscape? Civic memory and municipal public parks in early 20th century Manchester’, Landscape History, 38: 2 (2017), 63-75
- Carole O’Reilly, ‘We have gone recreation mad: the consumption of leisure and popular entertainment in municipal public parks in early 20th century Britain’, International Journal of Regional and Local History, 8: 2 (2013), 512-28
- Katy Layton-Jones, ‘A Commanding View : Public Parks and the Liverpool Prospect, 1722-1870’, Cultural and Social History, 10: 1 (2013), 47-63
- Karen R Jones, ‘’The Lungs of the City’ : Green Space, Public Health and Bodily Metaphor in the Landscape of Urban Park History’, Environment and History, 24: 1 (2018) 39-58
- Hilary A Taylor, ‘Urban Public Parks, 1840-1900: design and meaning’, Garden History, 23: 2 (1995), 201-221
- Tim Brown, ‘The Making of Urban ‘‘Healtheries’’: The Transformation of Cemeteries and Burial Grounds in Late-Victorian East London’, Journal of Historical Geography, 42 (2013)
- Clare Hickman, ‘To brighten the aspects of our streets and increase the health and enjoyment of our city: the NHS and urban green space in late 19th century London’, Landscape and Planning, 118 (2013), 112-119
Street life and fears of juvenile delinquency and deviance:
Social order/delinquency/morals
- Tim Brown, ‘ The making of urban ‘healtheries’: the transformation of cemeteries and burial grounds in late-Victorian East London’, Journal of Historical Geography, 42 (2013) 12–23
- Nan H. Dreher, ‘The Virtuous and the Verminous: Turn-of-the-Century Moral Panics in London’s Public Parks’, Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 246-267
- H. L. Malchow, ‘ Public Gardens and Social Action in Late Victorian London‘, Victorian Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 97-124
- Angela Loxham, ‘The Uses and Abuses of Public Space : Urban Governance, Social Ordering and Resistance, Avenham Park, Preston, c. 1850–1901’, Journal of Historical Sociology, 26: 4 (2013), 552-575
- Ruth Cotton, ‘Savage instincts, civilising spaces: the child, the empire and the public park, c1880-1914’, in Shirleene Robertson and Simon Sleight, eds, Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World (Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2015)
- Lynn Macgill, ‘The emergence of public parks in Keighley, West Yorkshire, 1887-93 : leisure, pleasure or reform?’, Garden History, 35: 2 (2007) 146-159
- Carole O’Reilly, ‘From ‘the people’ to ‘the citizen’: the emergence of the Edwardian municipal park in Manchester, 1902–1912’, Urban History, 40: 1 (2013), 136-15
- M. J. Daunton, House and Home in the Victorian City: working-class housing 1850-1914 (London, 1983)
- J. Gillis, ‘The evolution of juvenile delinquency, 1890-1914’, Past and Present, 67 (1977), 96-126
- J. Humphreys, Hooligans or Rebels? an oral history of working-class childhood and youth, 1889-1931 (Oxford, 1981)
- P. Bailey, Leisure and Class in Victorian England: Rational Recreation and the Contest for Control, 1830-1885 (London, 1978)
- Tim Hitchcock and Heather Shore, eds., The Streets of London from the Great Fire to the Great Stink (Rivers Oram, London, 2003)
- James Winter, London’s Teeming Streets, 1830-1914 ()
- R. Storch, ‘The policeman as domestic missionary: urban discipline and popular culture in northern England, 1850-1880’, Journal of Social History, 9: 4 (1976)
- David Churchill, Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City: the Police and the Public (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017)
- Peter K Andersson, Streetlife in Late Victorian England: the Constable and the Crowd (Basingstoke, 2013)
- Sarah Pickard, ed, Antisocial Behaviour in Britain: Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
- A. Fletcher and S. Huzzey, eds, Childhood in Question: Children, Parents and the State (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1999)
- Heather Ellis, ed., Delinquency and the Limits of Western Influence, 1850-2000 (2014)
- Louise A Jackson and Angela Bartie, Policing Youth, 1945-70 (Manchester, Manchester University, 2014)
- Heather Shore, ‘Inventing and Reinventing the Juvenile Delinquent in British History’, Memoria y Civilization, 14 (2011), 105-32
- Peter Gooderson, ‘Terror on the streets of late Victorian Salford and Manchester’, Manchester Region History Review, 11 (1997)
- Peter Holy, David Cox and Barry Godfrey, Crime, Regulation and Control During the Blitz (London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)
Planning:
- Peter Saunders, Urban Politics: a Sociological Interpretation (Hutchison, London, 1979)
- James Greenhalgh, Reconstructing Modernity: space, power and governance in mid-twentieth century British cities (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2017)
- Nicholas Bullock, Building the Post-War World: Modern Architecture and Reconstruction in Britain (Routledge, London, 2002)
- Nicholas Bullock, ‘Ideals, priorities and harsh realities: Reconstruction and the LCC, 1945–51′, PP, 9:1 (1994)
- Peter Weiler, ‘The rise and fall of the Conservative grand design for housing, 1951-64’, Contemporary British History, 14: 1 (2000)
- Harriet Jones, ‘This is magnificent, 300,000 houses a year and the Tory revival after 1945’, CBH, 14: 1 (2000)
- Guy Ortolano, ‘Planning the urban future in 1960s Britain’, Historical Journal, 54: 2 (2011)
- Otto Saumarez Smith, ‘Central and Town Centre redevelopment’, Historical Journal, 58: 1 (2015)
- Junichi Hazewaga, Replanning the Blitzed City Centre (1992)
- Junichi Hazewaga, ‘Reconstruction of Portsmouth’, CBH, 14: 1 (2000)
- Philip N Jones, ‘ A fairer and nobler city: Lutyens and Abercrombie’s Plan for the City of Hull 1945’, Planning Perspectives, 13: 3 (1998)
- Peter J Larkham, ‘The place of urban conservation in the UK reconstruction plans’, PP, 18: 3 (2003)
- Peter J Larkham, ‘Thomas Sharp’, PP, 24: 1 (2009)
- Peter J Larkham and John Pendlebury, ‘Reconstruction planning and the small town in early postwar Britain’, PP, 23: 3 (2008)
- Nick Tiratsoo, ‘The reconstruction of blitzed British cities’, CBH, 14: 1 (2000)
- Phil Hubbard , Lucy Faire & Keith Lilley, ‘Contesting the modern city: reconstruction and everyday life in post-war coventry’, PP, 18:4 (2003)
- Lucy Hewitt and John Pendlebury, ‘local associations and participation in place: change and continuity in the relationship between state and civil society in 20th century Britain’, PP, 29:1 (2014), 25-44
- Philip Booth, ‘From regulation to discretion: the evolution of development control in the British planning system, 1909-1947’, PP, 14 (1999), 277-89
- John Sheail, ‘Leisure in the English Countryside: Policy Making in the 1960s’, PP, 16 (2001), 67–84
- Gavin Parker and Neil Ravenscroft, ‘Benevolence, nationalism and hegemony: fifty years of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949’, Leisure Studies, 18: 4 (1999), 297-313
- Patricia L. Garside and Michael Hebbert, eds, British Regionalism, 1900-2000 (Mansell Publishing, London, 1989)
Protest and legislation:
- Gavin Parker, ‘Rights, the Environment and Part V of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994’, Area, 31: 1 (1999), 75-
- Gavin Parker and Neil Ravenscroft, ‘Land, Rights and the Gift: The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 and the Negotiation of Citizenship’, Sociologia Ruralis, Vol 41, Number 4 (October 2001)
- David Sibley, ‘Endangering the sacred’, in Paul Cloke and Jo Little, eds., Contested Countryside Cultures: Rurality and Socio-cultural Marginalisation (Routledge, 1997)
- Gavin Parker, Citizenships, Contingency and the Countryside: Rights, Culture, Land and the Environment (Routledge, 2002)
- David Sibley, Geographies of Exclusion: Society and Difference in the West (Routledge, 1995)
- Richard Card and Richard Ward , ‘Access to the countryside – the impact of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994’, Journal of Planning & Environment Law, 1996
- Nicholas Fyfe, ‘Law and order policy and the spaces of citizenship in contemporary Britain’, Political Geography, 14: 2 (1995), 177-89
- Penny English, ‘Disputing Stonehenge: Law and Access to a National Symbol’, Entertainment Law, Vol.1, No.2 (Summer 2002), 1–22
- Francesca Klug, Keir Starmer and Stuart Weir, ‘Civil Liberties and the Parliamentary Watchdog: the Passage of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994’, Parliamentary Affairs, 49 (1996)
- Gina Clayton, ‘Reclaiming Public Ground: The Right to Peaceful Assembly’, Modern Law Review, 63: 2 (2000), 252-60
- Neil Ravenscroft, ‘Recreational access to the countryside of England and Wales: popular leisure as the legitimation of private property’, Journal of Property Research, 12 (1995), 63-74
New town utopias and postwar reconstruction:
- Mark Clapson, Invicible Green Suburbs: Brave New Towns (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1998)
- Matthew Hollow, ‘Utopian urges’, PP, 27: 4 (2012)
- Frank Mort, ‘Fantasies of Metropolitan Life’, Journal of British Studies, 43: 1 (2004)
- Chris Perkins and Martin Dodge, ‘Mapping the imagined future’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 89: 1 (2012)
- Otto Saumarez Smith, Boom Cities (Oxford, 2019)
- Catherine Flinn, Rebuilding Britain’s Blitzed Cities: Hopeful Dreams, Stark Realities (Bloomsbury, 2019)
- Lauren Piko, Milton Keynes in British Culture: Imagining England (Routledge, 2019)
The ‘new new urban history’:
- historiographical review – James Greenhalgh, ‘The new urban social history? Recent theses on urban development and governance in post-war Britain’, Urban History, (2020)
- Tom Hulme, After the Shock City: urban culture and the making of modern citizenship (Royal Historical Society, 2019)
- Jon Lawrence, Me Me Me? the search for community in post-war England (Oxford, 2019)
- Otto Saumarez Smith, Boom Cities (Oxford, 2019)
- Catherine Flinn, Rebuilding Britain’s Blitzed Cities: Hopeful Dreams, Stark Realities (Bloomsbury, 2019)
- Lauren Piko, Milton Keynes in British Culture: Imagining England (Routledge, 2019)
Street spaces:
- Eleanor Herring, Street Furniture Design: contesting modernism in post-war Britain (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)
- Neil Pemberton, ‘The mass dread of quietude and the British Anti-Noise crusade, 1919-39’, in Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, ed., Daniel McCann and Claire McKenzie-Mason (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
- Eleanor Herring, Street Furniture Design: contesting modernism in post-war Britain (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)
- Colin Pooley, ‘On the street in 19th Century London’, Urban History (2019), 1-16
- Muhammed Ishaque and Robert Noland, ‘Making roads safe for pedestrians or keeping them out of the way?’ Journal of Transport History, 27 (2006)
- Barbara Schmucki, ‘Against the eviction of the pedestrian: the Pedestrian Association and Walking Practices in Urban Britain after WWII’, Radical History Review, 114 (2012)
- David Rooney, ‘Keeping Pedestrians in their Place’, in Architectures of Hurry—Mobilities, Cities and Modernity, edited by Phillip Gordon Mackintosh, Richard Dennis, Deryck W. Holdsworth (Abingdon, Routledge, 2018)
Public health/sanitation:
- Tom Crook, Governing Systems: Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830-1910 (Oakland CA, University of California Press, 2016);
- Christopher Hamlin, ‘Middling in blumbledon: on the enormity of large sanitary improvements in four British towns, 1855-1885’, Victorian Studies, 32 (1988), 55-83;
- Tom Crook, ‘Sanitary inspection and the public sphere in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain’, Social History, 32: 4 (2007), 369-93;
- Michelle Allen, Cleansing the City: sanitary geographies in Victorian London (Athens OH, 2008);
- Tina Young Choi, Christopher Hamlin and Mihelle Allen-Emerson, eds., Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, 6 vols (Pickering and Chatto, 2012)
- James Hanley, Healthy Boundaries: Property, Law and Public Health in England and Wales, 1815-72 (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, 2016).
Nuisance and annoyance
- James Mansell, The Age of Noise in Britain: Hearing Modernity (University of Illinois, 2017)
- Neil Pemberton, ‘The Mass Dread of Quietude and the British Anti-Noise Crusade 1919–1939’, in Daniel McCann and Claire McKechnie-Mason, eds., Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern: Dreadful Passions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-55948-7_10
- Gijs Mom, ‘Orchestrating Automobile Technology: Comfort, Mobility Culture, and the Construction of the “Family Touring Car,” 1917–1940’, Technology and Culture, 55: 2 (2014)
- Stefan Krebs, ‘Standardizing car sound – integrating Europe? International traffic noise abatement and the emergence of a European car identity, 1950–1975’, History and Technology, 28 (2012)
- Christopher Hamlin, ‘Nuisances and Community in mid Victorian England; the attractions of inspection’, Social History, 38: 3 (2013), 346-79
- Paul Simpson, ‘Sonic affects and the production of space: ‘Music by handle’ and the politics of street music in Victorian London’, Cultural Geographies, 24: 1 (2017)
- Ben Pontin, ‘Nuisance Law and the Industrial Revolution: A Reinterpretation of Doctrine and Institutional Competence’, Modern Law Review, 75: 6 (2012), 1010–1036
- Ben Pontin, ‘Environmental Law-Making Public Opinion in Victorian Britain: The Cross-Currents of Bentham’s and Coleridge’s Ideas’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 34: 4 (2014)
- Christine Rosen, ”Knowing’ Industrial Pollution: Nuisance Law and the Power of Tradition in a Time of Rapid Economic Change, 1840-1864′, Environmental History , 8, No. 4 (Oct., 2003), pp. 565-597
- Ben Pontin, ‘Integrated Pollution Control in Victorian Britain: rethinking progress within the history of environmental law’, Journal of Environmental Law (2007) Vol 19 No 2, 173–199
- Ben Pontin, ‘The Common Law Clean Up of the ‘Workshop of the World’: More Realism About Nuisance Law’s Historic Environmental Achievements’, Journal of Law and Society , Vol. 40, No. 2 (June 2013), pp. 173-198
- James Greenhalgh, ‘The control of outdoor advertising, amenity and urban governance in Britain, 1893-1962’, Historical Journal, n (2020), 1-26
- Peter Gurney, ‘Voice of civilisation: advertising and its critics in austerity Britain’, Contemporary British History, 32 (2018), 190-208
- Paul Readman, ‘Landscape preservation, advertising disfigurement and English national identity, 1890-1914’, Rural History, 12 (2001), 61-83
Housing:
- Alison Ravetz, Council Housing and Culture: the History of a Social experiment (Routledge, London, 2001)
- Anne Power, Property before People (1987)
- Anne Power, Hovels to High Rise (1993)
- John Cowley, Adah Kaye, Marjorie Mayo and Mike Thompson, Community of Class Struggle? (stage 1, London, 1977)
The Environment:
- James Winter, Secure from Rash Assault: Sustaining the Victorian Environment (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999)
- P. S. Barnwell and Marilyn Palmer, eds, Post-Medieval Landscapes: Landscape History after Hoskins, vol 3 (Windgather Press, Bollington, 2007)
- Andrew Done and Richard Muir, ‘The landscape history of grouse shooting in the Yorkshire Dales‘, Rural History, 12 (2001), 195-210
- Bill Luckin, Pollution and Control: a Social History of the Thames in the Nineteenth Century (Bristol, 1986)
- John Sheail, An Environmental History of Twentieth-Century Britain (London, 2002)
- John Sheail, Nature in Trust: the history of nature conservation in Britain (Blackie, Glasgow, 1976)
- Peter C Gould, Early green politics : back to nature, back to the land, and socialism in Britain, 1880-1900 (Brighton, Harvester, 1988)
- David Evans, A History of Nature Conservation in Britain (2nd edn, London, Routledge, 1997)
- M. J. D. Roberts, ‘Gladstonian Liberalism and Environment Protection, 1865-76’, English Historical Review, Vol. 128, No. 531 (2013), 292-322.
- Michael Woods, ‘Conflicting environmental visions of the rural: windfarm development in mid Wales’, Sociologia Ruralis, 43
- Peter C Gould, Early Green Politics: back to nature, back to the land and socialism in Britain, 1880-1900 (Harvester Press, Brighton, 1988)
- Malcolm Chase, The People’s Farm: English radical agrarianism, 1775-1840 (Oxford University Press, 1988)
- Jeremy Burchardt, The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873
- Dennis Hardy and Colin Ward, Arcadia for All. The Legacy of a Makeshift Landscape (London: Mansell Publishing, 1984)https://www.spatialagency.net/database/why/political/the.plotlanders
- Colin Ward, Cotters and Squatters: Housing’s Hidden History (Nottingham: Five Leaves, 2002).: 3 (2003)
- Gary Willis, ‘An arena of glorious work’: the protection of the rural landscape against the demands of Britain’s Second World War effort’, Rural History, 29: 2 (2018),. 259-80
- John Ranlett, ‘Checking Nature’s Desecration: late-Victorian environmental organisation’, Victorian Studies, 26: 2 (1983), 197-222
- James Winter, Secure from Rash Assault: Sustaining the Victorian Environment (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999)
Land reform and the ‘Land Question’:
- Michael Tichelar, ‘The Labour Party and Land Reform in the Interwar Period’, Rural history, 13: 1 (2002), 85-101
- Michael Tichelar, The Failure of Land Reform in Twentieth century England: the Triumph of Private Property (London, Routledge, 2019)
- Michael Tichelar, ‘The Conflict over property rights during the Second World War: the Labour Party’s abandonment of land nationalisation’, Twentieth-Century British History, 14: 2 (2003), 165-88
- Brian Short, Land and Society in Edwardian Britain
- Andro Linklater, Owning the Earth: the transforming history of land ownership
- Peter H. Lindert, ‘Who owned Victorian England? the debate over landed wealth and inequality’, Agricultural History, 61: 4 (1987), 25-51
- John Beckett and Michael Turner, ‘End of the Old Order? F. M. L. Thompson, the Land Question and the burden of ownership in England, c1880-c1925’, Agricultural History Review, 55: 2 (), 269-88
- Alun Howkins, ‘From Diggers to Dongas: the Land in English Radicalism, 1649-2000’, History Workshop Journal, 54 (2002), 1-23
- Andrew Cox, Adversary Politics and Land: the conflict over land and property policy in postwar Britain (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984)
- John Davis, ‘Macmillan’s Martyr: the Pilgrim case, the ‘land grab’ and the Tory housing drive, 1951-9′, Planning Perspectives, 23: 2 (2008), 125-46
- Brett Christophers, ‘The state and financialisation of public land in the United Kingdom’, Antipode, 49: 1 (2017), 62-85
- Peter Weiler, ‘Labour and the Land: from municipalisation to the Land Commission, 1951-71’, Twentieth-Century British History, 19: 3 (2008), 314-43
- Paul Readman and Matthew Cragoe, eds., The Land Question in Britain, 1750-1950 (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
- J. Stuart Anderson, Lawyers and the Making of English Land Law, 1832-1940 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992)
- Howard Newby, Colin Bell, David Roe and Peter Saunders, Property, Paternalism and Power: Class Control in Rural England (Hutchinson, London, 1978)
- Ian Packer, Lloyd George, Liberalism and the Land: the Land Issue and Party Politics in England, 1906-1914 (Suffolk, RHS, 2001)
- Paul Readman, Land and Nation in England: Patriotism, National Identity and the Politics of Land, 1880-1914 (Suffolk, RHS, 2008)
- P. Kivell and I McKay, ‘Public ownership of urban land’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 13: 2 (1988), 165-78
- A. Offer, Property and Politics 1870-1914: landownership, law, ideology and urban development in England (Cambridge University Press, 1981)
- Dan Bogart and Gary Richardson, ‘Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain’, Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 54 (May 2011)
- Geoffrey Hodgson, ‘1688 and all that: property rights, the Glorious Revolution and the rise of British capitalism’, Journal of Institutional Economics (2017), 13: 1, 79–107
- Stephen Gadd, ‘The Emergence and Development of Statutory Process for the Compulsory Purchase of Land for Transport Infrastructure in England and Wales, c.1530–1800’, The Journal of Legal History, 40:1 (2019), 1-20
- Rosa Congost and Rui Santos, eds., Contexts of Property in Europe: The Social Embeddedness of Property Rights in Land in Historical Perspective (lsd, 2010)
Rural utopias:
- Peter C Gould, Early Green Politics: back to nature, back to the land and socialism in Britain, 1880-1900 (Harvester Press, Brighton, 1988)
- Malcolm Chase, The People’s Farm: English radical agrarianism, 1775-1840 (Oxford University Press, 1988)
- Jeremy Burchardt, The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873
- Dennis Hardy and Colin Ward, Arcadia for All. The Legacy of a Makeshift Landscape (London: Mansell Publishing, 1984)
- https://www.spatialagency.net/database/why/political/the.plotlanders
- Colin Ward, Cotters and Squatters: Housing’s Hidden History (Nottingham: Five Leaves, 2002).
Planning and preservation:
- Gordon Cherry and Alan Rogers, Rural Change and Planning: England and Wales in the Twentieth Century (Chapman & Hall, London, 1996)
- Martin J. Elson, Green Belts: Conflict Mediation in the Urban Fringe (Heinemann, London, 1986)
- R. J. Moore-Colyer, ‘From Great Wen to Toad Hall: aspects of the urban-rural divide in interwar Britain’, Rural History, 10: 1 (1999), 105-24
- John Sheail, ‘The restriction of ribbon development act: the character and perception of land-use control in inter-war Britain’, Regional Studies, 13 (1979), 501-12
- Stephen Heathorn, ‘An English paradise to regain?’, Rural History, 11: 1 (2000)
- D. J. Jeans, ‘Planning and the Myth of the English Countryside in the Interwar Period’, Rural History, 1: 2 (1990), 249-64
- Simon Miller, ‘Urban Dreams and Rural Reality: land and landscape in English Culture, 1920-45’, Rural History, 6: 1 (1995), 89-102
- Peter Mandler, ‘Against Englishness: English Culture and the Limits to Rural Nostalgia, 1850-1940’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 7 (1997), 155-75
- Laura Balderstone, ‘Semi-detached Britain? Reviewing suburban engagement in twentieth-century society’, Urban History, Vol. 41, No. 1 (February 2014), pp. 141-160
Tenants’ movements:
- Peter Shapely, The Politics of Housing: Power, Consumers and Urban Culture (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2007)
- Peter Shapely, ‘Planning, housing and participation in Britain, 1968–1976’, Planning Perspectives, Vol. 26, No. 1, January 2011, 75–90
- Peter Shapely (2006) ‘Tenants arise! Consumerism, tenants and the challenge to council authority in Manchester, 1968–92’ , Social History, 31:1, 60-78
colonial and imperial spaces and planning:
- Joe Turner, ‘Internal colonisation: The intimate circulations of empire, race and liberal government’, European Journal of International Relations, 24(4) (2018), 765–790
- Jesse Meredith, ‘Decolonizing the New Town: Roy Gazzard and the Making of Killingworth Township’, Journal of British Studies, 57 (April 2018), 333–362
- Ambe Njoh, ‘Urban planning as a tool of power and social control in colonial Africa’, Planning Perspectives, 24: 3 (2009)
- Robert Home, Of Planting and Planning: The making of British colonial cities
- Robert Home, ‘Town planning and garden cities in the British colonial empire 1910–1940’, Planning Perspectives, Vol 5, No 1 (1990)
- Brenna Bhandar, Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership
Militarisation and requisition:
- Matthew Flintham, ‘Parallel landscapes: a spatial and critical study of militarised sites in the UK’, PhD Royal College of Art, 2010
- Peter Coates, Tim Cole, Marianna Dudley and Chris Pearson, ‘Defending nation, defending nature? Militarised landscapes and military environmentalism in Britain, France and the US’, Environmental History, 16 (2011), 456-91
- Marianna Dudley, ‘Traces of conflict: environment and eviction in British military training areas, 1943 to present’, Journal of War and Culture Studies, 6: 2 (2013), 112-26.