Newcastle University

Introduction

John Pendlebury is a town planner and urban conservationist with ten years practice experience before re-entering academia in 1996.

Research Interests

My research mostly focuses on conservation values and social purpose and the way this translates into strategies of management. It is drawn together in my book Conservation in the Age of Consensus www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415249843/. Broadly the work divides into two themes:

1. Empirical and conceptual work on the interface between cultural heritage policy and other policy processes e.g. social inclusion & regeneration. This interface poses challenges for considering which values are dominant in motivations for heritage protection (e.g. art historical values vs. ‘public values’). Projects include:

Co-ordinator for EU - FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES funded project Planning, Urban Management and Heritage (PUMAH)(2012-2016), linking Europeand and Chinese HEIs. See http://www.ncl.ac.uk/guru/research/projects/pumah/

Co-I for EPSRC funded project GLOBAL Sustainable Energy through China-UK Research Engagement (SECURE)(2012-2013), examining issues of retrofitting in co-opeartion with Chinese partners. See http://research.ncl.ac.uk/globalsecure/

Co-I for AHRC funded project (2012) Research for Community Heritage: North East England 

Co-Investigator for EPSRC/ ESRC/ AHRC/ English Heritage funded research network (2006-2007) Valuing the Historic Environment: Concepts, Instrumentalisations and Effects. See web-link above. This project led to the book Valuing Historic Environments www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754674245

Principal Investigator for ESRC CASE studentship with English Heritage (2006-2009) on heritage and areas of low housing demand

Principal Investigator for AHRC Collaborative studentship with Newcastle City Council (2006-2009) on characterising housing areas

Principal Investigator for ESRC CASE studentship with English Heritage (2002-2005) on impact of pluralistic approaches to heritage

Participation in ESRC-funded project on Urban Governance using Grainger Town, Newcastle as a case study (1998-1999)

2. Conceptual work based primarily on city case studies of how historic cities have been planned in the past, particularly in the mid-C20, focusing in particular on how the historic qualities of such cities were conceived and balanced with modernising forces. Projects include:

Co-I for AHRC Connected Communities project (2012) Civic Associations and Urban Communities: Local History, Place-Making and Activism in Twentieth Century Britain. See http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/research/urbanstudies/projects/civicassociationsandurbancommunities/

Principal Investigator for AHRC-funded project on Thomas Sharp (‘Town and Townscape: The Work and Life of Thomas Sharp’ Resource Enhancement Grant, 2006-2007). See http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/sharp.

Some of the publications listed can be accessed through eprints.ncl.ac.uk/ or through clicking directly on the publication.

Undergraduate Teaching

I have taught across the undergraduate programme but currently my key modules are in the conservation of the historic environment.

Postgraduate Teaching

Again, I have taught across our postgraduate programmes and currently deliver modules in conservation and the city.

• Pendlebury J. Conservation values, the authorised heritage discourse and the conservation-planning assemblage. International Journal of Heritage Studies 2012.
• Pendlebury J, Strange I. Centenary paper: Urban conservation and the shaping of the English city. Town Planning Review 2011, 82(4), 361-392.
• Davoudi S, Pendlebury J. Evolution of planning as an academic discipline. Town Planning Review 2010, 81(6), 613-644.
• Pendlebury J, Short M, While A. Urban World Heritage Sites and the problem of authenticity. Cities 2009, 26(6), 349-358.
• Pendlebury J. The urbanism of Thomas Sharp. Planning Perspectives 2009, 24(1), 3-27.
• Pendlebury J, Townshend TG, Gilroy RC. Social Housing as Heritage: The Case of Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne. In: Gibson L; Pendlebury J, ed. Valuing Historic Environments. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, pp.179-200.
• Gibson L, Pendlebury J, ed. Valuing Historic Environments. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2009.
• Pendlebury J. Conservation in the Age of Consensus. London: Routledge, 2008.
• Larkham PJ, Pendlebury J. Reconstruction planning and the small town in early post-war Britain. Planning Perspectives 2008, 23(3), 291-321.
• Pendlebury J. Planning the Historic City: 1960s Plans for Bath and York. In: Monclus, J., Guardia, M, ed. Culture, Urbanism and Planning. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, pp.149-164.
• Pendlebury J. The modern historic city: evolving ideas in mid-20th-century Britain. Journal of Urban Design 2005, 10(2), 253-273.
• Pendlebury JR. Reconciling history with modernity: 1940s plans for Durham and Warwick. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 2004, 31(3), 331–348.
• Townshend T, Gilroy RC, Pendlebury JR. The conservation of English cultural built heritage: a force for social inclusion?. International Journal of Heritage Studies 2004, 10(1), 11-31.
• Pendlebury J. Planning the historic city: Reconstruction plans in the United Kingdom in the 1940s. Town Planning Review 2003, 74(4), 371-394.
• Pendlebury J. Planning the Historic City: 1940s Reconstruction Plans in Britain. Town Planning Review 2003, 74(4), 371-393.
• Pendlebury JR. Conservation and regeneration: Complementary or conflicting processes? The case of grainger town, Newcastle upon Tyne. Planning Practice and Research 2002, 17(2), 145-158.
• Larkham P, Pendlebury J, Townshend T. Public Involvement in Residential Conservation Planning: Values Attitudes and Future Directions. In: Rydin, Y., Thornley, T, ed. Planning in the UK: Agendas for the New Millennium. Ashgate: Aldershot, 2002, pp.237-256.
• Healey P, Madanipour A, de Magalhaes C, Pendlebury J. Shaping City Centre Futures: Conservation, regeneration and institutional capacity. Newcastle upon Tyne: CREUE, 2002. CREUE Occasional Paper.
• Pendlebury JR. Alas Smith and Burns? Conservation in Newcastle upon Tyne city centre 1959-1968. Planning Perspectives 2001, 16(2), 115-141.
• Pendlebury J. Conservation in the United Kingdom. In: Pickard, R, ed. Policy and Law in Heritage Conservation. London: Taylor & Francis, 2001, pp.315-341.
• Elkadi H, Pendlebury J. Developing an information model to support integrating conservation strategies in urban management. Journal of Urban Technology 2001, 8(2), 75-93.
• Pendlebury JR. Conservation, Conservatives and consensus: the success of conservation under the Thatcher and Major Governments, 1979-1997. Planning Theory and Practice 2000, 1(1), 31-52.
• Pendlebury J. The conservation of historic areas in the UK: A case study of 'Grainger Town', Newcastle upon Tyne. Cities 1999, 16(6), 423-433.
• Townshend T, Pendlebury J. Public Participation in the Conservation of Historic Areas: Case-studies from North-east England. Journal of Urban Design 1999, 4(3), 313-331.
• Townshend TG, Pendlebury J. The Conservation of Historic Areas and Public Participation. Journal of Architectural Conservation 1999, 5(2), 72-87.
• Pendlebury J. The place of historic parks and gardens in the English planning system: Towards statutory controls?. Town Planning Review 1999, 70(4), 479-500.