Links to campaigns and projects related to the history of contested public spaces, greens, development, etc:
Who Owns England?
and Guy Shrubsole’s campaign with Nick Hayes: https://www.righttoroam.org.uk/
Campaign map by Community Planning Alliance:
Save Royton’s Green Belt Campaign
https://www.saveroytonsgreenbelt.com/
Save Ryebank Fields, Chorlton, Manchester:
https://www.saveryebankfields.org/
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/give-ryebank-fields-back-to-the-people
StoreyG2, Freeman’s Wood, Lancaster:
http://www.storeyg2.org.uk/landed/
Save Victoria Tower Gardens campaign:
https://www.savevictoriatowergardens.co.uk/
List of campaigns by London Friends of Green Spaces network:
Save Tidemill gardens:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/savetidemill/about/Save our Green Open Space, Sheffield:
https://twitter.com/sogossheffieldSave Rimrose Valley, Liverpool:
https://www.saverimrosevalley.org/
Save Clifton Hill Green Space, Exeter:
https://twitter.com/cliftonhillgre1Save Elm Road Open Space, Thurrock (successful):
https://saveelmroadopenspace.wordpress.com/
Save Chaucer’s Fields, Canterbury:
Save Walthamstow’s Town Centre:
https://twitter.com/SaveSquareE17Friends of Tooting Common:
http://www.friendsoftootingcommon.uk/
Save our Scrubs:
(from 2015): http://www.saveourscrubs.org.uk/
Coombe Valley Preservation Group, Gloucs:
https://twitter.com/SaveHolywellAllotments:
Save Farm Terrace Allotments, Watford:
http://savefarmterrace.wixsite.com/savefarmterrace
Coombe Valley Allotments, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucs
https://twitter.com/FightForCoombeSave Northfield Allotments, Ealing:
https://twitter.com/SaveNFAllotmenttenants’ rights groups and campaigns etc:
Save Cressingham Gardens (social housing):
https://savecressingham.wordpress.com/
Demolition Watch:
http://www.demolitionwatchlondon.com/
Fight for the Aylesbury:
(from 2015): https://fightfortheaylesbury.wordpress.com/
Save Westbury SW8:
https://twitter.com/saveWestburySW8Knight’s Walk, Kennington:
(from 2015): https://handsoffknightswalk.wordpress.com/
Save Oval, Kennington
national preservationist associations:
Open Spaces Society: https://www.oss.org.uk/saving-our-green-spaces/
CPRE: http://www.cprelondon.org.uk/
London Friends of Green Spaces network: http://www.lfgn.org.uk/sample-page/saving-green-spaces/
Greenspaces’ guide: ‘How to run a successful community campaign to save your open space’: https://www.lpgsf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/How-to-Run-a-Successful-Community-Campaign-to-Save-Your-Open-Space.pdf
Other types of public spaces:
research on market places and market sites by Dr Sara Gonzalez & Gloria Dawson, 2015
Academic research groups and projects:
Sheffield Hallam University Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research: https://www4.shu.ac.uk/research/cresr/
Their open-access journal is: People, Place and Policy
International Garden Cities Institute