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Guerrilla warfare in the planning system: revolutionary progress towards sustainability? (2013)
Journal Article
Adams, D., Scott, A., & Hardman, M. (2013). Guerrilla warfare in the planning system: revolutionary progress towards sustainability?. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 95(4), 375-387. https://doi.org/10.1111/geob.12031

This article extends Qviström’s (2007; Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 89 (3): 269–282) ideas concerning “landscapes out of order” within a re-discovering and re-imagining of spatial planning theory and practice. Taking the viewpoint... Read More about Guerrilla warfare in the planning system: revolutionary progress towards sustainability?.

Observing guerrillas in the wild : reinterpreting practices of urban guerrilla gardening (2013)
Journal Article
Adams, D., & Hardman, M. (2014). Observing guerrillas in the wild : reinterpreting practices of urban guerrilla gardening. Urban Studies, 51(6), 1103-1119. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013497410

Despite an emerging literature on guerrilla gardening as a political practice in public spaces, with few exceptions, these accounts theorise it as working against many corporate and bureaucratic forms of power. Using the example of ‘F Troop’—a group... Read More about Observing guerrillas in the wild : reinterpreting practices of urban guerrilla gardening.

Disintegrated development at the rural–urban fringe: Re-connecting spatial planning theory and practice (2013)
Journal Article
Scott, A., Carter, C., Reed, M., Larkham, P., Adams, D., Morton, N., …Coles, R. (2013). Disintegrated development at the rural–urban fringe: Re-connecting spatial planning theory and practice. Progress in Planning, 83, 1-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.progress.2012.09.001

The spaces where countryside meets town are often amongst society's most valued and pressured places which together form the rural–urban fringe (RUF). A ‘messy’ yet opportunistic space in policy and decision making processes, the RUF remains confused... Read More about Disintegrated development at the rural–urban fringe: Re-connecting spatial planning theory and practice.