RJ Smith Environmental Historian
Videos - see vimeo.com/user12763609. This includes:
“Windows into Venice” The Brooking Museum’s preparations for the 14th Venice Architectural Biennale. Used in the museum’s publicity - their display formed a major part of the Biennale, and as part of the subsequent staging of the display at the University of Brighton Art Gallery.
“Architectural Detail” commissioned by the Brooking Museum and used for teaching purposes.
“Sullington. An Essay in Changing Agriculture.”
“Nymans in October.” Music backed tour of the garden with on-screen commentary.
“Sissinghurst, A Garden Like No Other” With music and spoken reflections.
“Et Lux Perpetua.” Some thoughts on a little known mediaeval building.
“The Incoming Tide.” A walk round a nature reserve with music and on-screen commentary.
PUBLICATIONS (national and international )
Academic and Historical:
The Green Belt, History Today, Vol. 65, Issue 12, December, 2015, p 6. (View)
Fractious Waters, History Today, Vol. 64, Issue 1, January 2014, pp 6-7. (Preview this article )
Crimean connection. St. Andrew’s Church, North Yorkshire, BBC History Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, June 2005 p 81. (Download)
Compaction of Urban Areas and Shifting Perceptions of Degraded Ground, Global Built Environment Review, Themed Issue: Compact Cities and Sustainability, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2005, pp 54-59. (Download this article.)
Church’s 125th Birthday, Holmbury St. Mary, Surrey, BBC History Magazine Vol. 5 No. 11 November 2004 p 78.
(Download)
Dangerous Waters, BBC History Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 8, August 2002, pp 22-24 (Download)
Turning a tide of filth, BBC History Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 7, July 2001, pp 41-43. (Download)
The evolution of the “brownfield” concept. A background paper to “What is a Brownfield Site?” in Conference Papers: Brownfield Site Development, (IBC Global Conferences), 2000.
Nature and Water Pollution in 19th-Century Britain: Insights from Debates of Engineers and Administrators , Jahrbuch Für Europäische Verwaltungsgeschichte (Yearbook of European Administrative History), 11, 1999, pp 139-162. (Abstract - external site.)
Opposition to Environmental Policies: contaminated land in Britain, Local Environment, Vol. 4,
No. 3, (October) 1999, pp 377-383. (Buy this article - external site.)
Sewers Past and Present, (with N. Young), History Today, February 1993, pp 8-10. (Buy this article - external site.)
Registers of Contaminative Land Uses: Local Authority Survey, (Robens Institute) 1992.
Review: The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis. By Stephen Halliday. Stroud, England 1999 (paperback 2001). in Environmental History Vol. 7, No. 1 (January 2002) (Preview)
Business to Business:
Flower power (on “green roofs”), Contract Journal, 23rd November, 2005, p 28.
Revisiting the Past, Contract Journal, Brownfield Supplement, December, 2001, pp 34-35. (Download)
Playing a different tune, Construction News (Quarrying Feature), 21 June, 2001, p 43.
Operation Clean Up, Contract Journal, Piling and Site Preparation Supplement, April, 2001, pp 14-15. (Download)
A Taxing Problem, Contract Journal, Brownfield Supplement, November, 2000, pp 33-34. (Download)
Brownfield confusion, Contract Journal, Brownfield Supplement, November, 1999, pp 15-16. (Download)
Sample architectural photographic survey prior to demolition (West Road, Cambridge).
“Sullington. An Essay in Changing Agriculture.”
“Nymans in October.” Music backed tour of the garden with on-
“Et Lux Perpetua.” Some thoughts on a little known mediaeval building.
“The Incoming Tide.” A walk round a nature reserve with music and on-
PUBLICATIONS (national and international )
Academic and Historical:
The Green Belt, History Today, Vol. 65, Issue 12, December, 2015, p 6. (View)
Fractious Waters, History Today, Vol. 64, Issue 1, January 2014, pp 6-
Crimean connection. St. Andrew’s Church, North Yorkshire, BBC History Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, June 2005 p 81. (Download)
Compaction of Urban Areas and Shifting Perceptions of Degraded Ground, Global Built Environment Review, Themed Issue: Compact Cities and Sustainability, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2005, pp 54-
Church’s 125th Birthday, Holmbury St. Mary, Surrey, BBC History Magazine Vol. 5 No. 11 November 2004 p 78.
(Download)
Dangerous Waters, BBC History Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 8, August 2002, pp 22-
Turning a tide of filth, BBC History Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 7, July 2001, pp 41-
The evolution of the “brownfield” concept. A background paper to “What is a Brownfield Site?” in Conference Papers: Brownfield Site Development, (IBC Global Conferences), 2000.
Nature and Water Pollution in 19th-
Opposition to Environmental Policies: contaminated land in Britain, Local Environment, Vol. 4,
No. 3, (October) 1999, pp 377-
Sewers Past and Present, (with N. Young), History Today, February 1993, pp 8-
Registers of Contaminative Land Uses: Local Authority Survey, (Robens Institute) 1992.
Review: The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis. By Stephen Halliday. Stroud, England 1999 (paperback 2001). in Environmental History Vol. 7, No. 1 (January 2002) (Preview)
Business to Business:
Flower power (on “green roofs”), Contract Journal, 23rd November, 2005, p 28.
Revisiting the Past, Contract Journal, Brownfield Supplement, December, 2001, pp 34-
Operation Clean Up, Contract Journal, Piling and Site Preparation Supplement, April, 2001, pp 14-
Sample architectural photographic survey prior to demolition (West Road, Cambridge).
