Publications
- (book) Boom Cities, Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain (Oxford University Press, 2019)
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(book) The Modern British City ed. Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler and Otto Saumarez Smith (Lund Humphries, 2025). My chapter is titled 鈥楽crambled Cities: Ironbridge, Middlesbrough and Stoke-on-Trent鈥�, and I am co-author with Simon Gunn of the introduction 'From the Victorian to the Modern City'.
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(book chapter) 鈥楬ealthy Habitats; British Housing since 1900鈥� for volume 5 of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Britain (ed. Miles Taylor and Laura Beers).
- (book chapter) 鈥楨ngland since 1974鈥�, in The Oxford Illustrated History of England (Oxford, forthcoming) ed. William Whyte
- (book chapter) 鈥楢rchitecture and Sociology: Oliver Cox and Mass Observation鈥�, Democratising History: Modern British History Inside and Out, ed. Laura Carter, Freddy Foks, Philip Harding (UCL Press, 2025).
- (article) 鈥楲andscapes of Hope and Crisis: Dereliction, Environment, and Leisure in 1970s Britain鈥�, Journal of British Studies , 62.4 (2023), pp. 988-1010, Doi:10.1017/jbr.2023.7
- (article) 鈥楢ction For Cities: The Thatcher Government and Inner City Policy鈥�, Urban History (2020):
- 'The de-industrializing city in the UK and Germany: conceptual approaches and empirical findings in comparative perspective', Urban History (2020), with J枚rg Arnold and Tobias Becker: .
- (article) 鈥楾he Lost World of the British Leisure Centre鈥�, History Workshop Journal (2019):
- (article) 鈥楾he Inner City Crisis and the End of Urban Modernism in 1970s Britain鈥�, Twentieth Century British History, 24.7 (2016), pp. 578-598:
- ( article) 鈥楥entral Government and Town Centre Redevelopment in Britain, 1959-1966鈥�, Historical Journal, 58.1 (2015), pp. 217-244:
- (article) 鈥楪raeme Shankland. A Sixties Architect-Planner and Left-Wing Political Culture鈥�, Architectural History, 12 (2014), pp. 393-422:
- (article) 鈥楻obinson College and the Twilight of a Collegiate Modernism, 1974-1981鈥�, Architectural History (2012), pp. 369-402. Winner of the Society of Architectural Historian鈥檚 2011 Hawksmoor Medal:
- ( article/ edited volume) 鈥楢 Strange Brutalist Primitive Hut: Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis鈥� Senior Combination Room, Cambridge鈥�, Twentieth Century Architecture 11: Oxford and Cambridge, ed. Alan Powers, Elain Harwood and Otto Saumarez Smith (London: The Twentieth Century Society, 2013) pp. 150-161:
- (book chapter) 'Ironbridge B', in Cooling Towers: A celebration of Sculptural Beauty, Industrial History and Architectural Legacy (Twentieth Century Society, 2025)
- (book chapter) 'The Leisure Centre Boom', in 100 20th Century Sport and Leisure Buildings (Twentieth Century Society, 2025)
- (book) Barbican: Life, History, Architecture, ed. Jane Alison and Anna Ferrari (London: Barbican Art Gallery, 2014)
- (exhibition brochure) Concrete Dreams celebrating the history, heritage and significance of the Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hal, and Purcell Room (London: Southbank Centre, 2018):
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry) Bor, Walter George (1916-1999)
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(Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry) Shankland, Graeme (1917-1988)
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(Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry) Womersley, Lewis (1910-1990)
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(Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry) Introduction to the lives of urban planners