UR22a. URBAN ALLOTMENTS, COMMUNITY GARDENS & URBAN AGRICULTURE
(updated: March 2, 2006 )

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* indicates most useful and/or up to date references

Andrews, Sophie, 2001, 'The allotment handbook - a guide to promoting and protecting your site', Eco-logic books, Bristol, tel. (0117) 9420165, October, http://www.eco-logicbooks.com
Andrews, Sophie, 200%, 'The Allotment Handbook', ISBN 1 899 233105, (second edition), Eco-logic books, Bath, October, http://www.eco-logicbooks.com

Barton, Hugh; Grant, Marcus; Guise, Richard, 2002, 'Shaping Neighbourhoods: Health, Sustainability and Vitality', Spon Press, London, http://www.sponpress.com ISBN 0 415 27852 X (Hb) / 0 415 26009 4 (pb). (Oversize HT151.B2)

BTCV (British Trust for Conservation Volunteers), 36 St. Mary's Street, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 OEU,
tel. (01491) 821600, fax. (01491) 839646, email: information@btcv.org.uk
- publications available from BTCV Enterpises Ltd., The Conservation Centre, Balby Road, Doncaster DN4 0RH,
tel. (01302) 572000, fax. (01302) 310167.
- website: http://www.btcv.org
Practical handbooks
Tree Planting and Aftercare' (ed.: Barbara Viser), ?
'Toolcare', ?
'How to make a Wildlife Garden' (by Chris Baines), 19??
'A Guide to Habitat Creation' (by Chris Baines and Jane Smith), 19??
Other BTCV Publications (Published by BTCV except those marked #)
''Your wildlife pond', #
'Garden for birds', #

Buckingham, Susan & Theobald, Kate, 2003, 'Local environmental sustainability', Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge. ISBN 1 85573 685 3 (OFL on 21.2.03)
Buckingham, S, 2003, 'Allotments and community gardens: a DIY approach to environmental sustainability', Chapter 9 in Buckingham, Susan & Theobald, Kate, 2003, 'Local environmental sustainability', Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge. ISBN 1 85573 685 3 (GF50 LOC)

Crouch, David & Ward, C., 1994, 'The Allotment: its Landscape and Culture', Five Leaves / Mushroom Books, PO Box 81, Nottingham NG5 4ER, http://www.fiveleaves.co.uk
Crouch, David, 1998, 'Rewriting the plot on city allotments', Planning 1275, 3.7.98.
Crouch, Davi; Sempik, J & Wiltshire, R, 2001, 'Growing in the Community: A Good Practice Guide for the Management of Allotments', Local Government Association, London.

Department of the Environment (DOE) (former; from June 1997 to June 2001 part of the
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions; DETR):
'Greening city sites',' HMSO, 1989.
'Planning Policy Guidance Note 17, Recreation and Open Space', HMSO, 1991 (draft DETR revised version, 2001)
Planning Policy Guidance Note 21,'Tourism and Planning', HMSO, 1992.
Planning Policy Guidance Note 9, 'Nature Conservation', HMSO, 1994.
'Trees in Towns,' prepared for the DOE by Land Use Consultants, 1993.

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) (1997-2001)
- website: http://www.detr.gov.uk
NB: DETR replaced from June 2001 to May 2002 by the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR)
*'The Government's Response to the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee's report on 'The Future for Allotments', TSO, September 1998.

Elkin, T, 1991, 'Chapter 4: Green Space and Wildlife', in Reviving the City', Friends of the Earth, London. HT153.E5.

English Nature, Peterborough:
'Planning for Wildlife in towns and cities', 1994.
'Human Well-being and natural landscape and wildlife in urban areas', 1994.
'Accessible Natural Green space in cities a review of appropriate size and distance criteria', English Nature Research Reports No. 153, ISBN 0967-876X, 1995.
'A framework for the future: green networks with multiple uses in and around towns and cities', English Nature Research Reports No. 256, ISBN 0967-876X, 1997.

Feature, 1999, 'Digging in for Growth' (Allotments, City Farms and the threat from development), Urban Environment Today, 13.5.99.

Festing, Hariet, 2000, 'Somewhere for the kinds' (public childrens' gardens in the USA), Town and Country Planning 69 (12), December.
Festing, Harriet, 2001, 'Turning public space around: (experience of the US charity Project for Public Spaces), Town and Country Planning 70 (5), May, p148-149.

Forestry Commission:
'Handbook 11: Creating and Managing Woodland around Towns', HMSO, 1995.
'A New Focus for England's Woodland', Forestry Commission, Greater Eastern house, Tenison Road, Cambridge CB1 2DU, tel. (01223) 314546, 1998.
*(Forestry Commission and National Urban Forestry Unit), 'The Potential for Woodland on Urban and Industrial Waste', available from (01223) 314546, June 2000.

Fyson, Anthony, 1998, 'A lack of time is no reason for lack of allotment hours', Planning 1289, 9.10.98.

Gardening Which, 1999, 'A Blueprint for Trees', available from Gardening Which? PO Box 44, Hertford SG14 1SH.

Greater London Authority, 2001, 'Scrutiny of Green Spaces', GLA, tel. (020) 7983 4090, November and at http://www.london.gov.uk

Green Alliance, 2000, 'In our backyard: the social promise of environmentalism', The Green Alliance, London, tel. (020) 7233 7433, September (OFL on 10.10.00)

Harrison, C.M; Burgess, J; Millward, A & Dawe, C, 1995, 'Accessible natural greenspace in towns and cities: A review of appropriate size and distance criteria', English Nature Research Report no. 153, EN, Peterborough.
Harrison, C.M; Limb, M & Burgess, J, 1987, 'Nature in the city: popular values for a living world', Journal of Environmental Management 25, pp347-362.

Her Majesty's Government, 1969, 'The Thorpe Report: Department Committee of Inquiry into Allotments, Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, London.

Holland, Leigh, 2004, 'Diversity and connections in community gardens: a contribution to local sustainability', Local Environment 9 (3), June, p285 ,
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=KVBWGEUBMGQP78ET

House of Commons Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee;
publications available from The Stationery Office, tel. (0345) 023474:
*'The Future for Allotments', HC560-I, TSO, London, 1998.

Her Majesty's Government, 1969, 'The Thorpe Report: Department Committee of Inquiry into Allotments, Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, London.
Howe, J, 1990, 'Cultivating the Cities', Streetwise 38.
Howe, J & Wheelers, P, 1999, 'Urban food growing: the experience of two UK cities', Sustainable Development, pp13-24.
Irvine, Seana; Johnson, Lorraine & Peter, Kim, 1999, 'Community Gardens and Sustainable Land Use Planning: a case-study of the Alex Wilson Community Garden', (Carfax) Local Environment 4 (1), February.

Irvine, S; Johnson, L & Peters, K, 1999, 'Community Gardens and Sustainable Land Use Planning: a case study of the Alex Wilson community Garden', Local Environment 4 (1).

Jones, Graham, 1996, 'Magpies on the move cast a shadow over the allotments', (Newcastle football stadium relocation plans) Planning no. 1195, 6.9.96.

Kuhn, M, 1997, 'Rooftop Gardening Fact Sheets', available from Rooftop Gardens Resource Group, c/o Grow T.O.gether Community Gardeners, Ontario, Canada.

Local Government Association, Local Government House, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HZ
tel. (020) 7664) 3000
- website: http://www.lga.gov.uk
(LGA, former DETR & Shell Better Britain), 'A New Future for Allotments', 2000, and at http://www.lga.gov.uk/lga/allotments
'Growing in the community: A Good practice guide for the management of allotments', 2001, ISBN 184049204X

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: http://www.odpm.gov.uk/
(in May 2002 took over responsibilities for planning from the
Department for Transport, Local Government & the Regions (DTLR) (June 2001-May 2002-);
DTLR Planning and Local Government functions
'The English Allotments Survey', March 2005, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=23916&heading=e-mail+alert

National Association of Allotment and Leisure Gardens, 1997, 'National Allotment Survey', NSALG, tel. (01536) 266576, December.

Saunders, P, 1993, 'National survey of allotment gardens: views in England and Wales', ?

Smit, J, 1996, 'Urban Agriculture: progress and prospect 1975-2005', The Urban Agriculture Network Cities Feeding People Series Report 18, Washington.
Smit, J 2002,' Urban Agriculture: a powerful engine for sustainable cities', in Taylor-Idem, D & Taylor, C.E, 2002, 'Just and Lasting Change: when communities own their own futures', John Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Maryland.

Stearn, J, 1981, 'Towards community uses of wasteland', Wasteland Forum, London.

St. Ann's Allotment Campaign, 1994, 'St. Ann's Allotments - A Vision for the Future', Report on the Gorsey Close, Hungerhills and Stonepits Coppice Allotment sites at St. Ann's, Nottingham', St. Ann's Allotment Campaign Update, Nottingham.

Stott, Martin, 1998, 'Don't lose the plot' (Allotments Survey), Town and Country Planning 67 (2).

Thorpe, H. ed., 1969, 'Report of the Departmental Inquiry into Allotments', HMSO, London.

*Town and Country Planning Association, 2001, 'Sustaining the Plot: Communities, Gardens and Land Use', TCPA, London, tel. (020) 7930 8903, August.

University of Derby & the University of London, 2001, 'Growing in the community - a good practice guide for the management of allotments', produced for the (former) DETR, the Greater London Authority and the Local Government Association, London, June, available from IDeA, London, tel. (020) 7296 6600.

Viljoen, Andre, 2004, 'Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes', Architectural Press, ISBN 075065 5437, http://www.architecturalpress.com

*Ward, Colin & Crouch, David, 1998, 'The Allotment: Its Landscape and Culture', 5 Leaves Publications, Nottingham, tel. (0115) 969 3597.
Ward, Colin, 2000, 'Exploring Urban Agriculture', Town and Country Planning 69 6), June.
Ward, Colin, 2003, 'The plot as art', Town and Country Planning 72 (7), August, p198

Whitehead, J., 1992, 'The Making of the Urban Landscape,' Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. HT133.W4

Wiltshire, R; Crouch, D & Azuma, R, 2000, 'Rewriting the Plot', Local Environment 5 (2), pp139-152
Wiltshire, Richard & Crouch, David, 2001, 'Sustaining the plot' (redefining allotments), Town and Country Planning 70 (9), September, p235.
Wiltshire, Richard & Crouch, David, 2001, 'Sustaining the Plot. Community Gardens and Land Use', The Tomorrow Series, sponsored by Entec, Town and Country Planning Association, London.