Dr Matthew Wargent

2025

• Lynn, T., Sturzaker, J., Parker, G. and Wargent, M. 2025. Towards everyday conceptions of justice in community led planning. Planning Practice and Research (10.1080/02697459.2025.2511693)
• Allmendinger, P., Wargent, M. and Tewdwr-Jones, M. 2025. Epilogue: in search of planning theory. In: Allmendinger, P., Tewdwr-Jones, M. and Wargent, M. eds. Critical Planning Futures: New Directions for Planning Theory. London: Routledge, pp. 222-232., (10.4324/9781003402855-13)
• Wargent, M., Tewdwr-Jones, M. and Allmendinger, P. 2025. Critical planning futures. In: Allmendinger, P., Tewdwr-Jones, M. and Wargent, M. eds. Critical Planning Futures: New Directions for Planning Theory. London: Routledge, pp. 1-10., (10.4324/9781003402855-1)
• Allmendinger, P., Tewdwr-Jones, M. and Wargent, M. eds. 2025. Critical Planning Futures: New Directions for Planning Theory. Routledge.

2024

• Shepherd, E. and Wargent, M. 2024. Embedding the land market: Polanyi, urban planning, and regulation. Environment and Planning A 56(3), pp. 905-926. (10.1177/0308518X231203484)
• Smeds, E. et al. 2024. ‘Seeing like a citizen’: rethinking city street transformations through the lens of epistemic justice. Planning Theory and Practice 24(5), pp. 697-729. (10.1080/14649357.2023.2273664)

2023

• Parker, G., Wargent, M., Salter, K. and Yuille, A. 2023. Neighbourhood planning in England: a decade of institutional learning. Progress in Planning 174, article number: 100749. (10.1016/j.progress.2023.100749)
• Wargent, M. 2023. Digital participatory planning: citizen engagement, democracy, and design. [Book Review]. Journal of the American Planning Association 89(2), pp. 262-264. (10.1080/01944363.2023.2174350)
• Salter, K., Parker, G. and Wargent, M. 2023. Localism and the will to housing: neighbourhood development plans and their role in local housing site delivery in England. Planning Practice and Research 38(2), pp. 253-273. (10.1080/02697459.2022.2145032)
• Inch, A., Wargent, M. and Tait, M. 2023. Serving the public interest? Towards a history of private sector planning expertise in England. Planning Perspectives 38(2), pp. 231-251. (10.1080/02665433.2022.2063165)
• Lynn, T., Parker, G. and Wargent, M. 2023. Underrepresented neighbourhood plan areas in Middlesbrough. Project Report. Peterborough: Kingfisher Commons.

2022

• Parker, G., Sturzaker, J. and Wargent, M. 2022. Levelling up neighbourhoods - back to the very local future?. Town and Country Planning 91(3-4), pp. 99-101.

2021

• Wargent, M. and Talen, E. 2021. Rethinking neighbourhoods. Town Planning Review 92(1), pp. 89–95. (10.3828/tpr.2020.43)
• Wargent, M. 2021. Localism, governmentality and failing technologies: the case of neighbourhood planning in England. Territory, Politics, Governance 9(4), pp. 571-591. (10.1080/21622671.2020.1737209)

2020

• Parker, G., Wargent, M. and Street, E. 2020. Planning by gaslight: on reforms, skills and political work in planning. Town & Country Planning 89(11/12), pp. 371-373.
• Wargent, M., Parker, G. and Street, E. 2020. Private expertise and the reorganization of spatial planning in England. In: Moisio, S. et al. eds. Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State: New Spaces of Geopolitics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 416-427.
• Parker, G. et al. 2020. The future of the planning profession. Planning Theory and Practice 21(3), pp. 453-480. (10.1080/14649357.2020.1776014)
• Parker, G., Wargent, M., Salter, K., Dobson, M., Lynn, T. and Yuille, A. 2020. Impacts of Neighbourhood Planning in England. Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Available at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/929422/Impacts_of_Neighbourhood_Planning_in_England.pdf

2019

• Wargent, M., Parker, G. and Street, E. 2019. Public-private entanglements: consultant use by local planning authorities in England. European Planning Studies 28(1), pp. 192-210. (10.1080/09654313.2019.1677565)
• Parker, G., Street, E. and Wargent, M. 2019. Advocates, advisors and scrutineers: the technocracies of private sector planning in England. In: Raco, M. and Savini, F. eds. Planning and Knowledge: How New Forms of Technocracy are Shaping Contemporary Cities. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 157-167., (10.1332/policypress/9781447345244.003.0012)
• Wargent, M. 2019. Soft spaces in Europe: re-negotiating governance, boundaries and borders [Book Review]. People, Place and Policy 12(3), pp. 265-268. (10.3351/ppp.2019.2727638372)
• Parker, G., Salter, K. and Wargent, M. 2019. Neighbourhood planning in practice. London: Lund Humphries.

2018

• Parker, G., Street, E. and Wargent, M. 2018. The rise of the private sector in fragmentary planning in England. Planning Theory and Practice 19(5), pp. 734-750. (10.1080/14649357.2018.1532529)
• Wargent, M. 2018. Cities in time: temporary urbanism and the future of the city, Ali Madanipour [Book Review]. Town Planning Review 89(5), pp. 548-549. (10.3828/tpr.2018.36a)
• Wargent, M. and Parker, G. 2018. Re-imagining neighbourhood governance: the future of neighbourhood planning in England. Town Planning Review 89(4), pp. 379-402. (10.3828/tpr.2018.23)
• Wargent, M. 2018. "Localism and neighbourhood planning: power to the people?" edited by Sue Brownill and Quintin Bradley [Book Review]. International Journal of Housing Policy 18(2), pp. 351-353. (10.1080/19491247.2017.1417883)

2017

• Parker, G., Lynn, T. and Wargent, M. 2017. Contestation and conservatism in neighbourhood planning in England: reconciling agonism and collaboration?. Planning Theory and Practice 18(3), pp. 446-465. (10.1080/14649357.2017.1316514)

2015

• Parker, G., Lynn, T. and Wargent, M. 2015. Sticking to the script? The co-production of neighbourhood planning in England. Town Planning Review 86(5), pp. 519-536. (10.3828/tpr.2015.31)