Blog post for Turf Projects arts Croydon
Twentieth Century Society 100 Shops
Keynote slides: Practical Politics and Place in the 19th century
new towns reading list
right to stand on the pavement
New Lives New Landscapes Revisited: Rural Modernity in Britain
select bibliography on new social movements, urban commons, and anti-globalisation protest
rhododendrons
BBC Radio 4 Analysis, ‘what’s the point of street protest?’
East London primary sources
Kennington Common

new commentaries on the decline of public space

There seems to be a glut of commentary on the decline or privatisation of public space at the moment.

In particular, there’s been lots of publicity around geographer Andrew Smith’s research on councils hiring out their parks for events:

I’ve been looking at Croydon council’s Parks Committee records for the early and mid 20th century, so these issues over municipal finances and control of parks is high on my research agenda at the moment. more thoughts in the next blog…

Some of the many recent articles on public space & privatisation:

also the issue of the Ministry of Defence attempting to deregister commons near their land:

This may be a key line of historical research for our @ruralmodernism network – land requisitioned by the MoD during the two world wars and then the battles of local people to claim it back.

 

I’m also looking forward to reading Guy Shrubsole’s new book: https://twitter.com/guyshrubsole/status/1034382231777755136

Twitter accounts:

@DemolitionWatchLdn

@openspacessoc

 

 

Please let me know if you know of any good recent articles or twitter accounts.

 

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