David’s publications

  • “William Shenstone and the Fairy Landscape”, Georgian Group Journal, 1986.

  • “Unhealthy Prospect”, Country Life, 7 May 1987.

  • “Saving the Wizard’s Landscape”, with Stewart Harding, Country Life, 14 April 1988

  • “Thomas Wright at Stoke Park”, Garden History, 17: 1, 1989

  • The English Garden Tour, with Mavis Batey (John Murray, 1990)

  • Researching a Garden's History (Landscape Design Trust, 1991, 1994)

  • A Gazetteer of Historic Parks and Gardens in Avon, with Stewart Harding (Avon County Council, 1992)

  • Public Prospects: historic urban parks under threat (Garden History Society and Victorian Society, 1993)

  • Historic Parks and Gardens of of Avon, with Stewart Harding (1994)

  • Arcadian Thames, with Mavis Batey, Henrietta Buttery and Kim Wilkie (1995)

  • “Public Parks: A Rant,” The London Gardener, 1995

  • “Historic Parks and Gardens: a review of legislation, policy guidance and significant court and appeal decisions”, Journal of Planning and Environment Law, July 1995

  • “The Perambulator” columns in The London Gardener, annual, 1995 to date.

  • ‘”The Poet’s Feeling”: aspects of the Picturesque in contemporary literature, 1794-1815,’ Garden History, 24:1, 1996.

  • “Public Parks and the Lottery Millions,” The London Gardener, 1996

  • “Planning Law, Present and Future and the Register within the Planning System”, Gerddi, 1997 https://whgt.wales/documents/gerddi/GerddiVolume1.pdf

  • Historic Parks and Gardens in the Planning System: a Handbook, with Christopher Dingwall (Landscape Design Trust, 1997)

  • “New Labour and Old Gardens,” The London Gardener, 1997

  • Historic Public Parks of Weston-super-Mare (1998)

  • Four Purbeck Arcadias  (New Arcadian Press, 1998)

  • “Top-Down, Bottom-Up?”, The London Gardener, 1998

  • Guide London (1999)

  • “Politics and parks: renaissance and inertia”, Cultural Trends 35, 1999.

  • “These Trees Must Die!”, The London Gardener, 1999

  • Documentary Notes: The Thames Archive Project (Public Art Development Trust, 2000)

  • Historic Public Parks of Bristol (Bristol 2000)

  • Indignation: the Campaign for Conservation, with Mavis Batey and Kim Wilkie (Barn Elms, 2000)

  • “A tale of two cities: new public spaces in Paris”, Landscape Design, September 2000

  • "Buildings and Monuments", with Hazel Conway, in The Regeneration of Public Parks (Spon: 2000)

  • “The Power of ‘Power of Place’,” The London Gardener, 2000

  • “Public parks and living cities”, Context 72, December 2001.

  • “Places need People: Whose Heritage?,” The London Gardener, 2001

  • “The Heritage Lottery Fund’s Urban Parks Programme”, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, vol.46, 2002.

  • The Heritage Lottery Fund’s Urban Parks Programme, Urban Parks Forum, Occasional Paper, 2002.

  • Post-war Gardens and Landscapes in the UK: a provisional history for the post-war period,  2002.

  • “The prospect of trade: the merchant gardeners of Bristol in the second half of the eighteenth century” in Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550-1850, Harvard University, 2002

  • “Meaningful community participation is not cheap”, Landscape Design, June 2002

  • “Time for a Vision”, Burgess Park: a new urban landscape for London, 2002

  • “Lost in Space?,” The London Gardener, 2002

  • “Victims of golf course blight”, New Statesman, 1 December 2003.

  • ‘Gardens at Risk’, The Economist, 2003

  • “A Welcome to our New Champion,” The London Gardener, 2003

  • “The Gateway Project”, in Opening Doors: Learning in the Historic Environment, Attingham Trust 2004.

  • “Parkitechture?,” The London Gardener, 2004

  • Allotments, CABE Space Enablers Briefing Paper, 2005

  • Caring for Historic Parkland, English Heritage / DEFRA leaflet, 2005

  • The Park Keeper, English Heritage, 2005 https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/the-park-keeper/

  • ‘Dazzled by Design?’, Green Places 15, May 2005

  • “Don’t Eat the Ducks,” The London Gardener, 2005

  • Commons, Heaths and Greens in Greater London, 2005 Research Report 50/2014 http://research.historicengland.org.uk/Report.aspx?i=15282&ru=%2fResults.aspx%3fp%3d1%26n%3d10%26a%3d4789%26ns%3d1

  • ‘The History of the Country Park, 1966-2005: towards a renaissance?’, Landscape Research, 31:1, January 2006

  • Understanding and Valuing your Park, Parks Agency for Heritage Lottery Fund, March 2006

  • Parks and Gardens: a researcher’s guide to sources for designed landscapes, 3rd edition, London: Landscape Design Trust, 2006

  • The Cemetery in the Garden: 150 Years of the City of London Cemetery and Crematorium, London: Corporation of London, 2006

  • ‘All rosy in the garden?  The protection of historic parks and gardens’, in Architectural Conservation: Issues and Developments, 2006.

  • ‘The Meaning and Re-Meaning of Sculpture in Victorian Public Parks’ in Sculpture and the Garden, ed. Patrick Eyres and Fiona Russell, 2006

  • ‘From Manager to Conservationist: a two-year review of the City of London Cemetery Conservation Management Plan’, Journal of the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management, Winter 2006

  • “Who Are You Calling Common?,” The London Gardener, 2006

  • ‘Unspinning Enhancing Urban Green Space’, Spaces & Places, 24, December 2006

  • ‘Restoration of parks is important to the public’, Horticulture Week, 15 February 2007

  • ‘Assets and liabilities: what’s that park worth?’, Green Places 35, May 2007

  • ‘Rituals of Transgression in Public Parks in Britain, 1846 to the Present’, in Performance and Appropriation: Profane Rituals in Gardens and Landscapes, ed. Michel Conan, Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2007 https://www.academia.edu/103975735/Rituals_of_transgression

  • ‘Keep a hard copy!’ Garden Design Journal, August 2007.

  • “Estuary English,” The London Gardener, 2007

  • Golf in Historic Parks and Landscapes, with Land Use Consultants, English Heritage /  DEFRA leaflet, 2007 https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/golf-in-historic-parks-and-landscapes/

  • “To the Barricades!”, The London Gardener, 2008