Author Archives: Quintin Bradley
The reactivation of traditional protest repertoires in land use conflicts
A pre-modern repertoire of collective action associated with anti-enclosure struggles has been reactivated by contemporary social movements engaged in urban property conflicts. Traditional rituals of public shaming and folk justice that once upheld a moral economy of common property rights have … Continue reading
Plotlands – the struggle for land and affordable housing
Plotlands – the informally-planned settlements of self-built bungalows, chalets and shanties that gave working class families affordable access to rural and seaside property between the wars – are a distinctive feature of the British landscape and a living reminder of … Continue reading
Missing Targets: the systemic failure to calculate affordable housing need
Local authorities in England systematically under-count the need for affordable homes. This under-counting is deliberate and serves to cover up their abysmal failure to tackle a crisis of affordability in housing. The deliberate undercounting of affordable housing need is built … Continue reading
the town planning movement
In his commanding book, The City and the Grassroots, Manuel Castells (1983: xviii) argued that all major innovations in the built environment and the meaning and structure of society are “the outcome of grassroots mobilisation and demands”. The achievement of statutory … Continue reading
The real crisis of housing supply
In all the fuss over housing targets, the absence of any targets for the supply of affordable housing in England has gone largely unnoticed. Not only is there no national target for amount of affordable housing needed each year, but … Continue reading
Property, Planning and Protest
Available for pre-order on February 24, 2023. Publication March 17, 2023 https://www.routledge.com/Property-Planning-and-Protest-The-Contentious-Politics-of-Housing-Supply/Bradley/p/book/9781032206363
Property, Planning & Protest
The contentious politics of housing supply, by Quintin Bradley My new book will be published by Routledge in 2023. It is a compelling new investigation into public opposition to housing and real estate development. Situating this movement in a history … Continue reading
Planning Protests: the contentious politics of housing supply
In a new book to be published in 2023 by Routledge, I address the growth of community opposition to deregulated housing development. I situate this opposition in a landscape of contentious politics, as a broad-based social movement with its origins … Continue reading
The Eviction of the Public
Plenary presentation by Quintin Bradley at the Housing Studies Association Conference, 11 November 2020 In this plenary session I want to talk about the eviction of specific, informed and concerned publics from public services. In this talk, I identify three … Continue reading
Planning for the future
The rationale for the radical shake-up of the English planning system in the Planning White Paper published this August 2020 is the assertion that planning is a constraint on the supply of land for new housing. This assertion does not … Continue reading