Higher seminar: Adaptive reuse and urban conservation

Professor John Pendlebury is a town planner and urban conservationist with ten years practice experience in local government, central government and consultancy before re-entering academia in 1996. He teaches and undertakes research on heritage, conservation and planning and has published, among others, Conservation in the Age of Consensus (2009) as well as the edited collections Valuing Historic Environments (2009 with Lisanne Gibson) and Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction: Creating the Modern Townscape (2015 with Erdem Erten and Peter Larkham).

At this seminar,  he will present his research using the article "Adaptive reuse: a critical review” (Lanz & Pendlebury 2022) as a point of departure.  You may also read his latest article "Heritage protection as progressive urbanism” (Pendlebury & While 2025).