NW: On club cultures I would add:
Redhead, S., ed. (2009) The clubcultures reader: Readings in popular cultural studies. Oxford: Blackwell.
McRobbie, A. (2015) ‘Clubs to Companies: Notes on the Decline of Political Culture in Speeded-Up Creative Worlds’, in McRobbie, A. (ed.) Be creative: Making a living in the new culture industries. Chicester: Polity Press, pp. 17–32.
McRobbie, A. (2013) In the Culture Society [Online]: Routledge.
Redhead, S. (1990) The end-of-the-century party: Youth and pop towards 2000. Manchester, New York, New York: Manchester University Press
NW: On space/gentrification/symbolic aura/gentrification I recommend:
Harvey, D. (1989) The condition of postmodernity: An enquiry into the origins of cultural change. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Lloyd, R. D. (2010) Neo-Bohemia: Art and commerce in the postindustrial city, 2nd edn. New York: Routledge.
Benjamin, W. (2002) ‘Paris: Capital of the nineteenth century’, in Benjamin, W. (ed.) The Arcades Project. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Shields, R. (1992) ‘Spaces for the Subject of Consumption’, in Shields, R. (ed.) Lifestyle shopping: The subject of consumption. London: Routledge, pp. 1–20.
Lash, S. and Urry, J. (1994) Economies of signs and space. London: Sage.
Featherstone, M. (2007) Consumer culture and postmodernism [Online], 2nd edn. London: Sage Publications.
Zukin, S. (1989) Loft living: Culture and capital in urban change. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press.
O’Connor, J. and Wynne, D., eds. (op. 1996) From the margins to the centre: Cultural production and consumption in the post-industrial city. Aldershot: Arena.
Chambers, I. (1986) Popular Culture: The Metropolitan Experience. London: Routledge.
Pratt, A. C. (2004) ‘The Cultural Economy: A Call for Spatialized ‘Production of Culture’ Perspectives’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 117–128.
[some of this may be only relevant if you are going to look at KX in relation to the contemporary]
NW: Disregard as you are going the historical route, but on method I like:
Alasuutari, P. (1995) Researching culture: Qualitative method and cultural studies. London, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage.
Saukko, P. (2010) Doing research in cultural studies: An introduction to classical and new methodological approaches. London: Sage. [READING]
BB: Might be worth reading Anna Minton (2009) Ground Control on privatised public space (of which Argent’s Kings Cross development is an example).
Also Laura Oldfield Ford (2011) Savage Messiah (and/or the original zines in various UAL libraries) – not KX, but an artist/psychogeographer’s response to post-industrial/hedonistic spaces.
Plus, for a sense of London in the late 90s – i.e., towards the end of 18 years of Tory rule, and on the cusp of an unanticipated revival as a 21st-century ‘world city’ – I sometimes ask students to read the intro to Roy Porter (1996) London: A Social History, which is quite eye-opening. Equally, Patrick Keiller’s 1994 film London (The View from the Train, his 2013 volume of collected essays from the period is also worth a look). For what happened after that, see Doreen Massey (2007) World City.
On London generally, see Jerry White (2001) London in the Twentieth Century – and/or Owen Hatherley’s (2020) Red Metropolis is very good, esp. on housing.
And you can see pre-redevelopment KX in Mike Leigh’s 1988 movie High Hopes (esp. the final scene)
On subculture, start with the canon:
Hall, S. and Jefferson, T., eds. (1976) Resistance through rituals: Youth subcultures in post-war Britain. London: Hutchinson.
Hebdige, D. (1979) Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London: Routledge.
If you want to go deeper you might want to pick and choose from the following:
Brake, M. (1985) Comparative youth culture: The sociology of youth cultures and youth subcultures in America, Britain, and Canada. London, Boston: Routledge & K. Paul.
Waters, C. (1981) ‘Badges of Half-Formed, Inarticulate Radicalism: A Critique of Recent Trends in the Study of Working Class Youth Culture’, International Labor and Working-Class History, no. 19, pp. 23–37 [Online].
McRobbie, A. (1991) Feminism and youth culture: From ʻJackieʼ to ʻJust Seventeenʼ. Boston: Unwin Hyman.
Willis, P. (1978) Profane culture. London, Boston: Routledge & K. Paul.
Cohen, S. (1980) Folk devils and moral panics: The creation of the Mods and Rockers. New York: St. Martin’s Press. [1980 edition’s intro]
Clarke, G. (1990) ‘Defending Ski-Jumpers; A Critique of Theories of Youth Subcultures’, in Frith, S. and Goodwin, A. (eds.) On record: Rock, pop, and the written word. New York: Pantheon Books, pp. 68–80.
Calluori, R. A. (1985) ‘The Kids Are Alright: New Wave Subcultural Theory’, Social Text, no. 12, p. 43.
Frith, S. and Horne, H. (1987) Art into Pop. London: Methuen.
Gilroy, P. (1991) ‘There ain’t no black in the Union Jack’: The cultural politics of race and nation. Chicago Ill: University of Chicago Press.
Hebdige, D. (1987) Cut ‘n’ mix: Culture, identity, and Caribbean music. London, New York: Routledge.
Then the 90s developments
Polhemus, T. (1996) Style surfing: What to wear in the 3rd millennium. London: Thames and Hudson.
Polhemus, T. (1994) Streetstyle: From sidewalk to catwalk. New York: Thames and Hudson.
Redhead, S. (1990) The end-of-the-century party: Youth and pop towards 2000. Manchester, New York, New York: Manchester University Press.
Evans, C. (1997) ‘Dreams That Only Money Can Buy . . . Or, The Shy Tribe In Flight from Discourse’, : Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 169–188.
Gelder, K. and Thornton, S., eds. (2005) The subcultures reader, 2nd edn. London, New York: Routledge.
Sabin, R., ed. (1999) Punk rock, so what?: The cultural legacy of punk. London, New York: Routledge.
A bit tangential, but in the post-yuppie 1990s the sociology of consumer culture/identity started to look at subcultures as a model for consumer identity under late modernity (the curated self, freed from old social structure):
Chaney, D. C. (1996) Lifestyles. London, New York: Routledge.
Slater, D. (1997) Consumer culture and modernity. Cambridge: Polity.
Then the aughts debates
Blackman, S. (2005) ‘Youth Subcultural Theory: A Critical Engagement with the Concept, its Origins and Politics, from the Chicago School to Postmodernism’, Journal of Youth Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1–20.
Muggleton, D. (2000) Inside subculture: The postmodern meaning of style. Oxford: Berg.
Hodkinson, P. (2002) Goth: Identity, style, and subculture. Oxford: Berg.
Bennett, A. (1999) ‘Subcultures or Neo-Tribe? Rethinking the Relationship between Youth, Style and Musical Taste’, Sociology, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 599–617.
Bennett, A. (2002) ‘Researching youth culture and popular music: a methodological critique’, British Journal of Sociology, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 451–466.
Bennett, A. (2005) ‘In Defence of Neo-tribes: A Response to Blackman and Hesmondhalgh’, Journal of Youth Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 255–259.
Bennett, A. (2011) ‘The post-subcultural turn: some reflections 10 years on’, Journal of Youth Studies, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 493–506 [Online].
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2005) ‘Subcultures, Scenes or Tribes? None of the Above’, Journal of Youth Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 21–40.
Hodkinson, P. and Deicke, W., eds. (2009) Youth cultures: Scenes, subcultures and tribes. New York: Routledge.
Muggleton, D. and Weinzierl, R., eds. (2003) The post-subcultures reader. Oxford, New York: Berg.
Then the contemporary state of the field:
The Subcultures Network, ed. (2014) Subcultures, popular music and social change. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Gildart, K., ed. (2020) Hebdige and subculture in the twenty-first century: Through the subcultural lens [Online]. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. [Not an intense reading of this but it explores the merits of his approach – a classic piece of scholarship that uses structuralism, marxism and lit theory to understand punk – and merits/failures of his methodology – some love his bricolage approach and some think he wrote about punks he didn’t speak to them. Criticisms also for it being male and white in focus. Also an introduction to the idea of post subcultural theory and style surfing and the idea that subcultures aren’t as strong in convictions of style politics etc.)
[see the lit review of my article attached for summary of these theoretical debates]
for a quick, digestible overview of subculture theory, Ross Haenfler (2013) Subcultures: The Basics is v. useful.