I have frequently contributed to anthologies, monographs and catalogues, and written several introductions and prefaces. These are listed below; you can also find beneath them a list of my peer-reviewed articles for academic journals.

Book and Catalogue Chapters

‘Future Ruins’ in Leaving the Factory – Wang Bing’s Tie Xie Qu: West of the Tracks, Texte und Töne, 2009

‘Stalin’s Tomb Won’t Let Me Be’ in The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson, Zer0 Books, 2009

‘From Emotion to the Machine – the Factory of Eccentrism’ in The League of Time, BADCo, 2009

‘Let Me Tell You About Scientific Management’ in Mark E Smith and The Fall, Ashgate, 2010 (also published in Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall, Faber, 2021)

‘The Brutalism of Commerce’ in The Stones of Menace, Scare in the Community, 2010

‘The Collective Idea’ in 61:11 – Continuous Collective, BDP, 2011

‘A Hole into the Future’ in Star City – The Future Under Communism, Nottingham Contemporary, 2011

‘In Conversation’ in Ruth Maclennan: Anarcadia, Film and Video Umbrella, 2011

‘The Occupation of Space’, in Fight Back! – a Reader on the Winter of Protest, Open Democracy, 2011

‘Warsaw Passages’ in A Cookbook for Political Imagination, Sternberg Press, 2011

‘Matthew Darbyshire – ELIS’ in The Shape We’re In, Zabludowicz Collection, 2011

‘Efficiency Fantasy – Metamorphoses of the Socialist Skyscraper’ in Skyscraper, MCA Chicago, 2012

‘Marxism and Mud’ in Surfing the Black – Yugoslav Black Wave Cinema and its Transgressive Moments, Jan Van Eyck Academie, 2012

‘Sheffield – Some Modest Proposals’, in Brutalist Speculations and Flights of Fancy, Site Gallery, 2012

‘Socialist Googie, Gothic Futurism and Hierarchical Tunnels’ in AR/PS – The Architecture of Arseniusz Romanowicz and Piotr Szymaniak, Centrum Architektury, 2012

‘How do Buildings Kill People?’ in How Buildings Kill, Tombstone Press, 2013

‘Americanism and Chaplinism’ in Parallel Slalom – A Lexicon of Non-Aligned Poetics, TkH, 2013

‘Murals’ in Reclaim the Mural – the Politics of London Murals, Whitechapel Gallery, 2013

‘A Thinking Army’ in Luke Fowler: the Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Follower of Johanna Southcott, Film and Video Umbrella, 2013

‘Nairn and the Professions’ in Ian Nairn – Words in Place, Five Leaves, 2013

‘Deptford’ in Andy Wicks – The Doldrums, Victory Press, 2013

‘A High Performance Contemporary Life Process’ in The Idea of the Avant-Garde, Manchester, 2014

‘Nothing to do with Us’ in Subplots to a City, In Certain Places, 2014

Profiles of Thomas Struth, Stephen Shore, Ed Ruscha and the Bechers in Constructing Worlds, Barbican/Prestel, 2014

‘Just Drifting – Some Notes on a Misunderstanding’ in Relief 2: Drift, Relief, 2014

‘Castle Market’ in Victoria Lucas, Castle Market, Self-published, 2014

‘Wyndham Court’, in 100 Buildings 100 Years, Twentieth Century Society, 2014

‘Common Mural’ exhibition handout for Julika Gittner – Common Enemies, Flat Time House, 2015

‘The Embalming of Modernism’ in Invisible Fabrick, Promontories, 2015

‘Architectural Sculpture’ in Liu Wei – Density, White Cube, 2015

‘Not the Same as Building for the Socialist State’ in Jessie Brennan: Regeneration! Silent Grid, 2015

‘The Death and Life of PFI Urbanism’ in Economy and Architecture, Routledge, 2015

‘Northam’ in Stravaigers – in a Fading Light, sleepers publications, 2015

‘Making Things Speak – Forensic Architecture’, in The Other Architect, CCA, 2015

‘Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances’ in British Design – Tradition and Modernity, Bloomsbury, 2015

‘Faustian Modernism’ in Adventures in Modernism – Thinking with Marshall Berman, UR, 2016

‘These Homes Need People, These People Need Homes’ in Small Interventions, Birkhauser, 2016

‘Our Friends in the North’ in Exhibition, Design, Participation – An Exhibit 1957, Afterall, 2016

‘Total Theatres’ in Sergei Sapozhnikov – The Drama Machine, Marsilio, 2016

‘Nothing too Good’ in What Ever Happened to the New Institutionalism?, Sternberg Press, 2016

‘Concrete Clickbait’ in Heroes We Love, UGM Maribor, 2017

‘Prefabricating Communism’, in Economic Science Fictions, Goldsmiths, 2018

‘From the Factory to the Pop Centre and Back’ in Regeneration Songs, Repeater, 2018

‘Happy Had To Done’ in Michael Wilkinson: In Reverse, Mousse, 2018

‘Buckinghamshire Alphaville’ in New Town Utopia, Self-published, 2018

‘The Hilltop Republic of Socialist Sheffield’, in Sheffield Modern, Our Favourite Places, 2018

‘New Babylon’, in Playtime, Peabody Essex Museum, 2018

‘Central Committee’ in We’ll Never Have Paris, Repeater, 2019

‘False Landscape Syndrome’ in The Routledge Companion on Architecture, Literature and the City, 2019

‘Keeping up the Standard’ in Bardhi Haliti: May 25 Is Now October 1, cpress, 2019

‘The Modern Municipal Landscape’ in The Lie of the Land, Milton Keynes Gallery, 2019

‘Kharkiv: Centre of the World’, in DAU Bulletin, Phenomen Films, 2019

‘Useless, then Dangerous’ in Uselessness – Mankind’s Most Valuable Tool?, De Gruyter, 2020

‘The City Without a Centre’, in Re-Centring The City – Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity, UCL, 2020

‘Just Because the Map Says So Doesn’t Mean It’s True’, in The Legacies of Division, CEU Press, 2020

‘Dead Russians on the Wall’ in Lenin 150 (Samizdat), KickAss Books, 2020

‘Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before’ in Futures of Socialism, Verso 2020

‘The Institute of Mundane Socialist Memory’ in Vlad Nanca – In the Natural Landscape the Human is an Intruder, Dispositiv, 2020

‘The Central Line Extension Clock’ in My C20 Detail, Twentieth Century Society, 2021

‘Footnotes on Constructivism’ in Superstructures, Experimental Jetset, 2021

Various contributions to Platform Urbanism and its Discontents, NAI 010, 2021

‘Production Lines and Golden Domes’, in 800 years of Nizhny Novgorod, Tatlin, 2021 (in Russian translation)

‘Bruno Taut’ in The Repeater Book of Heroism, Repeater, 2022

‘Curtains and Concrete’ in Euphrosyne Andrews – Soft Edges, Draw Close, Foolscap, 2022

‘Brand New Ancients’, in Aida, Royal Opera House, 2022

‘The Housing Estate’ in London Feeds Itself, Open City, 2022

‘Municipal Socialism in the 1980s: the London Experience’, in Fearless Cities, Sentit Comu, 2022

‘Etyka Zaha Hadid Architects’ and ‘Inzyneria wartosci’, in W Przejsciu – 43 Teksty o Architekturze, Autoportret, 2023 (in Polish translation)

‘Architecture’, in Annual Register 2022, ProQuest, 2023

‘Ways of Preserving’ and ‘Commentary’ in Dunelm House – One Ruin too Many, Harper-Perry, 2023

‘Lenin on the Buses’, in Lenin: The Heritage We (Don’t) Renounce, Daraja Press, 2024

‘Hammer and Sickle’, in Andrzej Wroblewski: Exhibiting, Hatje Cantz (forthcoming)

Introductions and Prefaces

Robin Maddock, God Forgotten Face, Trolley Books, 2011

Sylvia Grace Borda, Coming to the Table, Belfast Exposed, 2012

Keith Coventry, Twentieth Century Estates, Modern Collections, 2013

Sam Kemp, The Ferrier Estate, Self-published, 2014

Scott King, Public Art, Slimvolume, 2015

Sean O’Brien, Hammersmith, Hercules Editions, 2016

Simon Phipps, Finding Brutalism, Park Books, 2017

Christopher Herwig, Soviet Bus Stops Volume 2, Fuel, 2017

Peter Guillery and David Kroll, Mobilising Housing Histories, RIBA, 2017

James Smith, London Overspill, Relief, 2018

Nicolas Grospierre, Modern Spaces, Prestel 2018

Marija Nemcenko and Anna Tudos, BRUT Boredom – High-Rises, Emptiness and Play, Self-published, 2019

William Morris, How I Became a Socialist, Verso, 2020

Anastasia Tsayder, Arcadia – Gardens in Common, Orbita, 2022

Andrew Beharrell and Rory Olcayto, The Deck Access Housing Design Guide, Routledge, 2023

SERIA_, Fragile Brutalism – Ukrainian Mass Housing Past/War/Future, The Modernist, 2023

George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Commonwealth, 2023 (forthcoming)

Journal Articles

‘Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip’, Historical Materialism, vol 16, issue 2, 2008

‘Fashioning Socialism’, Historical Materialism, vol 16 issue 4, 2008

‘Post-Postmodernism?’, New Left Review, 59, 2009

‘Topographies of Class’, Historical Materialism, vol 18 issue 2, 2010

‘Casting Spells’ in The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies, vol 1, no 1, 2010

‘Fossils of Time Future’, Collapse vol 6, 2010

‘One Better than Stonehenge – the Gosprom Building and Dzerzhinsky Square, Kharkov’ in AA Files 62, 2011

‘Two Notes On Alan Colquhoun’, in OASE 87, 2012

‘The Hyperstationary State – Walks in Search of the Future in Shanghai’, Culture Unbound, vol 4, 2012

‘Colonnade Park’ in The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol 72, issue 3, 2013

‘The Kyiv Park of Memory’, in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol 38, 2014

‘On the Square’ in Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme, 266-267, 2015

‘Silo Dreams’, The RIBA Journal of Architecture vol 20 issue 3, 2015

‘Architecture, Urbanism and Pop in Sheffield’, Popular Music History, vol 10, no 1, 2015 (republished in the book Sounds Northern – Popular Music, Culture and Place in England’s North, Equinox, 2018)

‘The Feebleness of the Northern Powerhouse’, World Policy Journal, vol 33 issue 2, 2016

‘Crimes of the Retro-Future’, Critical Quarterly, vol 58, issue 1, 2016

‘Comparing Capitals’, New Left Review, 105, 2017

‘Actually Existing Social Condensers’, The RIBA Journal of Architecture, vol 22, issue 3, 2017

‘Our Monuments to Glorious Defeat’, Studia Ethnologia Croatica, vol 29 no 1, 2017

‘An Eldorado for the Working Class? – the import of Constructivism and the Lubetkin Legacy’, in KnE Social Sciences: Convention 2017 – Modernisation and Multiple Modernities, 2018

‘A Mud-Brick Utopia’, New Left Review, 120, 2019

‘The Retroactive Utopia of the Socialist City’, in Socialist Register 56, 2020

‘The Government of London’, New Left Review, 122, 2020

‘The Tower has been Bolshevised’, New Literary Observer, 167 (in Russian translation), 2021