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-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 (2002-2005) on impact of pluralistic approaches to heritage

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

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

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:

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 web-link above.

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

Projects

• Characterising the Post-Industrial City: a Case Study of Housing in Newcastle upon Tyne
  Project Leader(s): John Pendlebury
   Elli Suntioinen CASE Studentship
• From Homogeneity to Diversity: The Heritage of Mass Housing and Housing Market Renewal
  Project Leader(s): John Pendlebury
  David Webb CASE studentship
• The Development of Townscape as an Urban Design and Conservation Pedagogy: The Architectural Review and the work of Thomas Sharp
  Project Leader(s): John Pendlebury
• Town and Townscape: The Work and Life of Thomas Sharp
  Project Leader(s): John Pendlebury
• Valuing the Historic Environment: Concepts, Instrumentalisations and Effects
  Project Leader(s): John Pendlebury

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.

• Davoudi S, Pendlebury J. Evolution of planning as an academic discipline. Town Planning Review 2010, 81(6), 613-644.
• Gibson L, Pendlebury J. Introduction: Valuing Historic Environments. In: Gibson L Pendlebury J, ed. Valuing Historic Environments. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, pp. 1-16.
• 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.
• Pendlebury J. The urbanism of Thomas Sharp. Planning Perspectives 2009, 24(1), 3-27.
• 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.
• Marvin S, Pendlebury J. Planning Research in the United Kingdom. In:Fubuni, A., ed. Improving Planning Education in Europe.Milan, Italy:FrancoAngeli,2004. In Press.
• 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.
• Healey P, De Magalhaes C, Madanipour A, Pendlebury J. Place, identity and local politics: analysing partnership initiatives. In: Hajer, M; Wagenaar, H, ed. Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 60-87.
• 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.
• 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.