Wherever possible, electronic versions are linked here. DOI and Online links are normally to the sites of commercial publishers where payment is required unless you are a member of a subscribing university library. Eprints, however, are free downloads. Video material is mostly at the very end.
Edwards, M (2025 June) Rent, Agglomeration, and the Economy of London. The Value of Place: exploring regional development and land use strategies. Frank Moulaert and Abid Mehmood (eds) London, Edward Elgar http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the-value-of-place-9781035347919.html offprint https://michaeledwards.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/edwards-london-rent-agglom-sept-2025.pdf
Edwards M, Matt Thompson and Jess Ferm (2024) Growth or Good Growth, in Planning in London, 132, pp 14-15, download
Clarke, Linda, Michael Edwards and Paul Watt (2023) “Engels and the housing question 150 years on: A roundtable discussion” Theory and Struggle 124(1): 66-71 https://doi.org/10.3828/theory.2023.8. Eprint here.
Michael Edwards, 2022, Harvey’s Urbanization of Capital: why it helped me so much, in Camilla Perrone (ed) Critical Planning & Design: Roots, pathways, and frames, pre-print as accepted: edwards-on-harvey-v1 Book now published. Details and ordering at http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-93107-0…
Bob Colenutt, Michael Edwards, Tim Marshall, Janice Morphet and Naomi Luhde-Thompson, Levelling Up: the rôle of planning, 2021, free download https://www.tcpa.org.uk/levelling-up-report and video of launch event at https://michaeledwards.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/levelling-up-2021-sd-480p.mov
2020 October Michael Edwards contributes section in The Right Answers to the Right Questions, what the English planning system should be like, The Right Answers to the Right Questions
2020 August Michael Edwards, interview by Neal Hudson in his Housing Conversations Series: Housing problem: not so simple?
2020 August Michael Edwards section in Andy Inch (ed) The Wrong Answer to the Wrong Questions: commentary on the government white paper
Michael Edwards (2019) Postcard from London, in Social Innovation as Political Transformation: thoughts for a better world, eds Pieter Van den Broeck, Abid Mehmood, Angeliki Paidakaki and Constanza Parra, ch 12, 66-69, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar. eprint: a postcard from London 2017.
Publisher’s site for the book and the chapters: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/social-innovation-as-political-transformation
Ball M J, Bentivegna, V, Edwards, M, and Folin, M, Eds (2018) Land Rent, Housing and Urban Planning: a European Perspective Reprint of 1985 book in Routledge Revivals series. https://www.routledge.com/Land-Rent-Housing-and-Urban-Planning-A-European-Perspective/Ball-Edwards-Bentivegna-Folin/p/book/9781138494435
Michael Edwards, Bob Catterall, Costas Lapavitsas, Louis Moreno, Joe Penny, conversations on financialisation led by Debbie Humphreys for CITY journal 2018 https://bit.ly/3rLaMNY
Jess Ferm, Michael Edwards and Ed Jones (2018) Planning for economic progress in Planning Practice: Critical Perspectives from the UK, eds: Jess Ferm and John Tomaney, London, Routledge https://www.routledge.com/Planning-Practice-Critical-Perspectives-from-the-UK/Ferm-Tomaney/p/book/9780815384847 or short link http://bit.ly/2KkbDhd
Jess Ferm, Ed Jones and Michael Edwards (2017) Revealing local economies in London: methodological challenges, future directions, UCL.
Download eprint http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1566799
Michael Edwards and Myfanwy Taylor (2017) Re-industrialisation as progressive urbanism: why and how? Chapter 1 in Krzysztof Nawratek (ed), Urban Re-industrialization, Punctum Books, pp21-28. Order and download https://punctumbooks.com/titles/urban-re-industrialization
Free eprint of chapter now available at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1492696/
Michael Edwards (2016) Rebalancing the UK economy and the role of citizens’ organisations, contribution to a special issue of Town and Country Planning on Planning in the London Metropolitan Region, guest-edited by Duncan Bowie eprint here
Michael Edwards (2016) The housing crisis: too difficult or a great opportunity? Soundings Issue: 62: Alternatives to neoliberalism, 23-42, free download at https://lwbooks.co.uk/product/the-housing-crisis-too-difficult-or-a-great-opportunity-soundings-62-spring-2016
Whole issue at https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/62
Myfanwy Taylor and Michael Edwards (2016) Just Space Economy and Planning: opening up debates on London’s economy through participating in strategic planning, in Yasminah Beebejaun (ed) The Participatory City, Berlin: Jovis 76-86 Offprint here
Edwards, Michael (2016 April) The Housing Crisis and London, in Special Feature on London edited by Anna Minton and Paul Watt, City, 20, 2, 222-237, paywalled at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13604813.2016.1145947
Edwards, Michael (2015 July) Prospects for land, rent and housing in UK cities, Working Paper 18, Foresight Future of Cities Project, Government Office for Science, free download from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/future-of-cities-land-rent-and-housing-in-uk-cities or from http://societycould.wordpress.com where there is discussion space and related material – slides and a video.
Edwards, Michael (2014) “Yes, and We Have No Dentists.” In Forty Ways to Think About Architecture: architectural history and theory today, edited by Iain Borden, Murray Fraser and Barbara Penner, 280 pages. London: Wiley, ch 28, 2014. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118822617.html
[ e-print Edwards for Forty ]
Robin Brown, Michael Edwards, Richard Lee (2014) Just Space: Towards a just sustainable London, ch 3 in Rob Imrie and Loretta Lees (eds) Sustainable London? The future of a global city, Bristol, Policy Press http://policypress.co.uk/sustainable-london
[ e-print http://justspacelondon.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/edw-brown-lee-20140308.pdf ]
Planners Network UK PNUK (2012) (Colenutt, B, Edwards, M, Inch, A and Marshall, T) A manifesto for planning and land reform – draft [ Eprint https://pnuk.org.uk/manifesto/ ]
Edwards, M (2011) preface to Duncan Bowie, The Politics of housing development in an age of austerity, Chartist pamphlet. Free download [ THE POLITICS OF HOUSING DEVELOPMENT: in an age of austerity. By Duncan Bowie ]
Edwards, M (2011) London for sale: towards the radical marketization of urban space, in Matthew Gandy (ed) Urban Constellations, Berlin, Jovis. [ E-print here: edwards-constellations-20110705]
Edwards, M (2010) Machen die Londoner ihre eigenegen Pläne?, Luxemburg (4/2010): 72-77 translated by Christina Kaindl from the 2010 paper published below by LSE. [ Free at http://www.zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/?p=1239 ]
Review of Duncan Bowie: Politics, planning and homes in a world city in Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 25, 4 (2010), 481
[ http://search.proquest.com/openview/8e6aed0055289f7d3a1ba360ea171439/ ]
and in Chartist [ Eprint review of bowie ]
Michael Edwards (2010 October) Do Londoners make their own plan? in K Scanlon and B Kochan (eds) London: coping with austerity, LSE London Series, paperback, 978-0-85328-459-8, chapter 5, 57-71. Eprint http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/20241/
Whole book is a free download at http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSELondon
Michael Edwards (was 2011 work in progress) Towards better urban development, appearing as a paper of the University of Northampton Institute of Urban Affairs. Draft at http://societycould.wordpress.com/michael-edwards-draft-paper/ Ended up in Foresight report (above, 2015).
Edwards, M (2010) ‘King’s Cross: renaissance for whom?’, in (ed John Punter) Urban Design, Urban Renaissance and British Cities, London: Routledge, 189-205. Eprint free at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/14020
Michael Edwards, comments on Conservative Party Green paper on Planning, in Planning in London, 73, April 2010. Same text also at https://michaeledwards.org.uk/?p=344
Edwards, M, Campkin, B and Arbaci, S (2009) Exploring roles and relationships in the production of the built environment Centre for Education in the Built Environment (CEBE) Transactions 6, 1, 10.11120/tran.2009.06010038 http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/15579 Publisher’s version at (link broken)
Edwards, M (2008), The struggle against the development plan in the King’s Cross area in Planning and human rights, civil society and the state (ed) Shuli Hartman, Jerusalem, Bimkom and the Arab Centre for Alternative Planning: English 51-55; Hebrew 38-41; Arabic 85-88 www.bimkom.org Eprint free at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10652
Edwards, M (2008) Blue Skies over Bluewater, in London’s Turning: the making of the Thames Gateway, edited by Mike Rustin and Phil Cohen, Ashgate [ Eprint of chapter at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/5016/ ]
Edwards, M (2006) Hamlet without the prince: whatever happened to capital in Working Capital? City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 10(2), 197-204. ISSN: 1360-4813 [Eprint at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/2029] [DOI link]
Edwards, M (2006) What if? …the next London Plan were better? Planning in London 57, 26-29 [Eprint at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1732]
Edwards, M (2006) Blue Skies over Bluewater Mute 2(3), 1-7. ISSN: 1356-7748 [Online link broken] [Eprint at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/2271]
Edwards, M (2006) Preface: Evaluation, between past and future. in Alexander, E (ed) Valuation in Planning: evolution and prospects. Essays in honour of Nathaniel Lichfield. Aldershot: Ashgate, xiii-xvi. ISBN: 0 7546 4586 X
Edwards, M, Strelitz, Z (2006) Getting it together: the work-life agenda and offices. London: British Council for Offices [Online – link broken ]
Edwards, M, Strelitz, Z, Ben-Galim, D (2006) Getting it together: the work-life agenda and offices. Research report. London: British Council for Offices [Eprint at http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/archive/00002096]
Carmona, C, de Magalhães, C, Edwards, M and Sieh, L (2006), Offices, Value and Design: A discussion document. London: British Council for Offices.
Edwards, M (2004). Wealth Creation and Poverty Creation: Global-local interactions in the economy of London in Paloscia, R (ed, for INURA) The Contested Metropolis: Six Cities at the Beginning of the 21st Century Birkhauser. ISBN: 3764300868 [ Details at http://www.inura.org/v2/index.php/publications/books ]
Edwards, M, de Magalhães, C, Karadimitriou, N, Rehman, K (2004) The funding and development of the built environment: the research agenda London: RICS Foundation [Eprint at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/5203]
Edwards, M, Karadimitriou, N, de Magalhães, C, Rehman, K (2004) Sustainable Urban Development: How we could produce it, how we could pay for it. Literature review which underpinned the previous item, London, Bartlett Schoolf of Planning, UCL [ Eprint at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/5205 ]
Edwards, M, Maguire, S, Tewdwr-Jones, M (2004) Intra-Urban Polycentric Development: Suburban Trajectories. ODPM
Edwards, M, Karadimitriou, N, de Magalhães, C, and others (2003), Final Evaluation of the Central Stepney SRB (Single Regeneration Budget project) London: LBTH [ Free PDF at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/5075/1/5075.pdf ]
Mutale, M, Edwards, M (2003) Monitoring and Evaluation of the work of the King’s Cross Partnership: Final Report. London: Bartlett School of Planning, UCL [ Eprint at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/5073/ ]
Edwards, M, Mutale, E (2002) Change and Perception of change at King’s Cross: surveys of households and enterprises in London London: Bartlett School of Planning, UCL [ Eprint on households at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/5071/ ] [ Eprint on enterprises at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/5070 ]
Carmona, M, de Magalhães, C, Edwards, M (2002) Stakeholders’ Views on Value and Urban Design Journal of Urban Design 7.2, 145-169. ISSN: 13574809
Carmona, M, de Magalhães, C, Edwards, M (2002) What Value Urban Design? Urban Design International 7(2), 63-81. ISSN: 1357-5317 [DOI link]
Edwards, M (2002) Wealth creation and poverty creation: global-local interactions in the economy of London. City 6.1, 25-42. ISSN: 1360-4813 [ Eprint here ] [ DOI link ]
Edwards, M, Mutale, E (2002)The London Development Agency and Local Regeneration Issues: an overview of urban regeneration management Local Economy 17.1, 25-34. ISSN: 0269-0942
Carmona, M, de Magalhães, C, Edwards, M (2001) The Value of Urban Design,London: Thomas Telford/CABE/DETR. ISBN: 07277-2981-0. 110pp
Edwards, M (2001) City design: what went wrong at Milton Keynes? Journal of Urban Design 6(1), 87-96. ISSN: 13574809 [ Eprint at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/4642/ ]
Edwards, M (2001) Planning & Communication in London City, 5 (1), 91-100. ISSN: 1360-4813 [ Eprint: Communication ]
Edwards, M, Marsh, C (2001) Sustainable property development. in Layard, A, Davoudi, S, Batty, S (eds) Planning for a Sustainable Future London: Spon, 149-164. ISBN: 0-415-23408-5
Edwards, M, Florio, S (2001) Urban Regeneration in Stratford, East London Planning Practice and Research, 16 (2), 101-120. ISSN: 0269-7459 [Online
Edwards, M (2000) Sacred Cow or Sacrificial Lamb? Will London’s Green Belt have to go? City, 4 (1), 105-112. ISSN: 1360-4813 [Online ] [ Eprint ]
Edwards, M (2000) Towards a joined-up London Planning in London (32), 41-42. ISSN: 1366-9672
Edwards, M (2000) Planificazione e comunicazione a Londra. in Caudo, G, Palazzo, A (eds) Comunicare l’urbanistica. Firenze, Alinea Edizioni, 39-51. ISBN: 88-8125-370-4
Edwards, M (2000) Property markets and the production of inequality. in Watson, S, Bridge, G (eds) A Companion to the City. Oxford and Malden MA: Blackwell, 599-608. ISBN: 0-631-21052-0 [ Eprint: Edwards_CompanionFC ]
Edwards, M, Mutale, E (2000) King’s Cross Partnership: Evaluation of baseline data. Bartlett School, UCL [ Download KXP Baseline Evaluation ]
Edwards, M (1999). Biss: retrospect and prospect. Bartlett International Summer School on the Production of the Built Environment Proceedings 15 [ biss15 ]
Hall, P, Edwards, M, Robson, D (1999), London’s Spatial Economy: the dynamics of change London, London Development Partnership (LDP) and Royal Town Planning Institute. Eprint free at
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1369585/
Edwards, M (1997) Impact and cost benefit analysis in Urban Regeneration: evaluation as a tool for policy development, London: Local Economic Policy Unit, South Bank University, and online in Collected Papers [ edwards8999 ]
Edwards, M, Budd, L (1997) Confirming conforming conventions: the Four World Cities Study CITY (7), 171-181. ISSN: 1360-4813
Edwards, M (2006) Collected Papers 1989-99 [ edwards8999 ]
Edwards, M (1993) Applications for permission to develop King’s Cross Railway Lands: Report on Economic Viability, Michael Edwards, King’s Cross Railway Lands https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206108
Michael Edwards (1992) Potentialities and contradictions in resistance to ‘development’ in Mrs Thatcher’s London, conference paper reprinted in Collected papers 2006 https://michaeledwards.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/edwards8999.pdf
Edwards M and Leopold, Ellen, with contributions from Graham Ive, Jon Mitchell, Michael Geddes, Andrew Waxman and graduate students, Alternatives for King’s Cross: report on a pilot social audit, RLG, December 1988
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206106/
Ball M J,Bentivegna, V, Edwards, M, and Folin, M (1985) Land Rent, Housing and Urban Planning: a European Perspective Croom Helm London – see 2018 reprint above.
Edwards, M (1985) What is a Sector? Proceedings of the Bartlett International Summer School on the Production of the Built Environment 6: 2/14 – 2/22 [ Edwards sector 1985 ] Also in a German version as PBE Working Paper 14
Edwards, M (1980) Land value theories and policies: the need for reappraisal, Built Environment, 6, 4, 272-276 [ jstor.org/stable/23284725 ]
Anonymous. written with others, 1989 People or Profit at King’s Cross
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206068
Other downloads / videos
2018 lecture on London: Edwards for DPU 2018 lores
2017 lecture: Economics as a battle of ideas EPA schools of thought 2017 lores
1985 Channel 4 programme on trams by Kerry Hamilton with me also appearing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTGswtGfahY&feature=youtu.be
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTGswtGfahY
2020 INURA conference on zoom from Zürich: Urban activisms and social movements in 1980s, in Zürich, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Florence (in that order, with discussions https://ethz.zoom.us/rec/share/4w7ZI5ABbYsN5Y7oYQf-PrHkLpvxcPJWiJPRKiaQLsvic2Ra63mduNsDVBu1vOTw.aFWDBhM0h3hU641Y
2022 CNBC documentary Why is it so hard to buy a home in London? by Tymothyna Duncan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mai7N8wkrZE
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