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Presented below are books I have discovered both during and since writing my book On Guerrilla Gardening.


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(Some are not available).
  Gardening
  Horticultural Reference
  Urban Space
  Conflict
  Historical
  Society
  Tales
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  Gardening
No image Bassett, T. J., Vacant Land Cultivation: Community Gardening in America 1893–1978
(University of California at Berkeley MA Thesis 1979).
The Pursuit of Paradise Brown, Jane, The Pursuit of Paradise
(Harper Collins 1999)
Grace from the Garden Engle, Debra Landwehr, Grace from the Garden
(Rodale 2003).
Food Not Lawns

Flores, Heather C., Food Not Lawns
(Chelsea Green Publishing 2006).
Helphand, Kenneth I., Defiant Gardens
(Trinity 2006).
Richardson, Tim, Avant Gardeners: 50 Visionaries of the Contemporary Landscape
(Thames & Hudson Ltd 2008)
Richardson, Tim and Kingsbury, Noël (eds.), Vista: The Culture and Politics of Gardens
(Frances Lincoln 2005).

Sackville-West, Vita, The Garden
(Virago 1946).

Von Hassel, Malve, The Struggle for Eden
(Bergin & Garvey 2002).

Walpole, Horace, On Modern Gardening
(Pallas Athene Publishers 1771).

Wislon Lamborn P. and Weinberg, B., Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggle in the City and the World
(Autonomedia 1999).
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  Horticulutral Reference

Brickell, Christopher (ed.), The Royal Horticultural Society A–Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants
(Dorling Kindersley 1996).

Brickell, Christopher (ed.), The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening
(Dorling Kindersley 1992).

Gilmour, John and Walters, Max, Wild Flowers
(Collins 1954).

Larkcon, Joy, Grow Your Own Vegetables
(Frances Lincoln 2002).

Thompson, Elspeth, The London Gardener Guide and Sourcebook
(Frances Lincoln 2006).
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  Urban Space
No image Chadwick, George F., The Park and the Town
(Architectural Press 1966).
No Tresspassing Corr, Anders, No Trespassing
(South End Press 1999).
No image Crouch, David, The Popular Culture of City Parks. Working paper 9
(Comedia / Demos 1994).
Nature, Landscape & Alienation Ensor, Andy, Nature, Landscape & Alienation: Digging in the City
(University of Westminster Architecture Diploma Dissertation 2007).
In The Nature Of Cities Heynen, Nik, Kaika, Maria and Swyngedouw, Eric, (eds.), In the Nature of Cities
(Routledge 2006).

Howard, Ebenezer, Garden Cities of To-morrow
(Attic Books 1898).

Jacobs, Jane, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Random House 1961).

Miessen, Markus and Basar, Shumon (eds.), Did Someone Say Participate – An Atlas of Spatial Practice
(Revolver 2006).

Rogers, Richard, Cities for a Small Planet
(Faber and Faber 1997).

Viljoen, André (ed.), C.P.U.L.S. Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes
(Elsevier / Architectural Press 2005).
Guerrilla Gardening

Zanetti, Olly, Guerrilla Gardening: Geographers and Gardeners, Actors and Networks: Reconsidering Urban Public Space
(Queen Mary, University of London MA Dissertation 2007).
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  Conflict
No image Clutterbuck, Richard, Terrorism and Guerrilla Warfare
(Routledge 1990).
No image Ellis, John, From the Barrel of a Gun
(Greenhill Books 1995).

Guevara, Che, Guerrilla Warfare
(Souvenir Press 1961).

Salgado, Sebastião, Terra: Struggle of the Landless
(Phaidon 1998).

Sassoon, Siegfried, Siegfried’s Journey 1916–1920
(Faber and Faber 1945).

Tse-Tung, Mao, On Guerrilla Warfare
(University of Illinois Press 1937).
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  Historical
The Diggers Movement Berens, Lewis Henry, The Diggers Movements in the Days of the Commonwealth
(Hard Press 1906).
Winstanley and the Diggers Bradstock, Andrew (ed.), Winstanley and the Diggers 1649–1999
(Frank Cass 2000).
Moses, Will, Johnny Appleseed: The Story of a Legend
(Puffin 2004).
A Short History of England Chesterton, G. K., A Short History of England
(Chatto and Windus 1917).

Starsmeare, David, The Story of a Commune
(Blackie & Sons 1978).
Warrick, Karen Clemens, John Chapman – The Legendary Johnny Appleseed
(Enslow Publishers 2001).
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  Society
Who Owns The World Cahill, Kevin, Who Owns the World
(Mainstream Publishing 2006)
The Faber Book of Utopias Carey, John, The Faber Book of Utopias
(Faber and Faber 1999)
The Society of the Spectacle Debord, Guy, The Society of the Spectacle
(Editions Buchet-Chastel 1967).
Neighbor Power

Diers, Jim, Neighbor Power: Building Community the Seattle Way
(University of Washington Press 2005).

Progress and Poverty George, Henry, Progress and Poverty
(Schalkenbach Foundation 1886).
Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls

Guerrilla Girls, Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls
(Pandora 1995).
Rockwell, David and Mau, Bruce, Spectacle
(Phaidon 2006).

Taylor, Gary J. and Scharlin, Patricia J., Smart Alliance
(Yale University Press 2004).

Vickers, Tony, Location Matters: Recycling Britain’s Wealth (Shepheard-Walwyn 2007).
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  Tales
Cooney, Barbara, Miss Rumphius
(Viking 1982).
The Man Who Planted Trees  Giono, Jean, The Man Who Planted Trees (Peter Owen 1953).
Orwell, George, The Lion and the Unicorn
(Penguin 1941).
Naipaul, V. S., Guerrillas
(Penguin 1975).
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