Barracks, Forts and Ramparts: Regeneration Challenges for Portsmouth Harbour's Defence Heritage, by Celia Clark with Martin Marks OBE. Tricorn Books 2020. ISBN 9781912821648. 450 pages, illustrations, bibliographies, references, index. Available from [email protected] £40 + £4 postage and packing (UK); overseas postage costs on request. This book is a successor to Celia Clark and Samer Bagaeen's earlier book: Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites (Routledge 2016).
Portsmouth Harbour's long history of defending the nation - and recent experience of how the local ex-defence sites have found new civilian life - offer useful lessons for other once defence-dominated communities seeking new roles for their specialised physical legacy. The harbour contains in microcosm all the challenges as well as impressive examples of how to repurpose historic defence sites. This new book ends with an agenda for further research of this widespread but under-reported land use change at international level.