Books
1973 (With Anthony Fyson) Streetwork The exploding school. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1973. ISBN 0 7100 7683 5.
1973 (As editor) Vandalism. London: The Architectural Press. 1973. ISBN 0 85139 700 X.
1974 (With Colin Smithson) Utopia. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Education. 1974. ISBN 0140812369.
1974 Tenants take over. London: The Architectural Press. ISBN 0 85139 630 5.
1975 (As editor) Kropotkin, Peter. Fields, factories and workshops tomorrow. New York, NY: Harper & Row.
1976 (As editor) British school buildings Design and appraisals 1964-74. London: The Architectural Press. ISBN 0 85139 085 4.
1978 The child in the city. London: The Architectural Press. ISBN 0 85139 118 4.
1982 (With Eileen Adams) Art and the built environment. Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex: Longman Group. ISBN 0 582 36195 8.
1984 Housing is theft, Housing is freedom. Nottingham: Five Leave Publications. ISBN 0907123058.
1985 (With Dennis Hardy) "The Plotlanders". Oral History. 13 (2): 57-70.
1985 When we build again Let's have housing that works. London: Pluto Press. ISBN 0745300227.
1986 (With Dennis Hardy) Goodnight campers! The history of the British holiday camp. London: Mansell Publishing. ISBN 0-7201-1835-2.
1986 Chartres The making of a miracle. London: The Folio Society.
1987 (As editor) A decade of Anarchy (1961-1970. London: Freedom Press. ISBN 0900384379.
1989 Welcome thinner city Urban survival in the 1990s. London: Bedford Square Press. ISBN 0-7199-1252-0.
1989 (With Ruth Rendell) Undermining the central line. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 0701135980.
1990 Talking houses Ten lectures. London: Freedom Press. ISBN 0900384557.
1990 (Originally 1988) The child in the country. London: Hale. ISBN 0719912903.</ref>
1991 (With Tim Ward) Images of childhood in old postcards. Far Thrupp, Gloucestshire: Alan Sutton. ISBN 0-86299-865-4.
1991 Influences Voices of creative dissent. Hartland, Bideford, Devon: Green Books. ISBN 1-870098-43-9.
1991 Freedom to Go: after the motor age. London: Freedom Press. ISBN 0 900384 61 1.
1993 New Town Home Town. London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. ISBN 0903319624.
1995 Talking schools. London: Freedom Press. ISBN 0 900384 81 6.
1997 Stamps: Designs For Anarchist Postage Stamps (illustrated by Clifford Harper)
1997 Havens and springboards (PDF). London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. ISBN 0 903319 82 9.
1997 Reflected in water: A crisis of social responsibility. London: Cassell. ISBN 0304335681.
1998 (With Peter Hall) Sociable cities The legacy of Ebenezer Howard. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-98505-8.
2000 (Originally 1996) Social policy An anarchist response. London: Freedom Press. ISBN 9780900384981.
2002 Cotters and squatters Housing's hidden history (PDF). Nottingham: Five Leaves. ISBN 0907123198.
2003 (With David Goodway) Talking anarchy. Nottingham: PM Press. ISBN 978-1-60486-812-8.
2004 Anarchism A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280477-4.
2004 (With Dennis Hardy) Arcadia for all. Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications. ISBN 0 907123 59 7.
2011 (With Damian F. White and Chris Wilbert) Autonomy, solidarity, possibility The Colin Ward reader. Edinburgh: AK. ISBN 9781849350204.
2012 Talking green. Nottingham: Five Leaves. ISBN 9781907869518.
2022 (Originally 1996) Talking to architects. London: Freedom Press. ISBN 978-1-904491-43-9.
2023 (originally 1988) (With David Crouch) The allotment Its landscape and culture (New ed.). Bridport: Little Toller Books. ISBN 9781915068231.
