bibliography

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:

Image collections (this may change):

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:

    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:

    LSE collections of digitised material:

    Black Abolitionists interactive map: http://frederickdouglassinbritain.com/Map:Abolitionists/

    Webpages and online articles:

    on the privatisation of public spaces:

    Social housing/class divides/squatting and public space:

    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

    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:

    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.

    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

    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).

    Preservationist campaigns:

    • Michael Woods, ‘Conflicting environmental visions of the rural: windfarm development in mid Wales’, Sociologia Ruralis, 43Peter 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)

    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.