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ABSTRACT
Jeremy Whitehand died suddenly in June 2021 just short of his 83rd birthday. He was a world-leading figure in urban morphology and his disciplinary home was urban geography, but he was a founder-member of the Planning History Group (forerunner of IPHS). This appreciation explores his work and the centrality of a planning history perspective in his approach to studying urban form. In retirement he was making headway in introducing this research-based, historically-informed perspective into planning and urban decision-making through UNESCO, in the UK, in Romania and especially in China.
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Notes
1 Whitehand and Whitehand, “The Study of Physical Change in Town Centres”; Whitehand and Whitehand, “The Physical Fabric of Town Centres”.
2 Whitehand, The Changing Face of Cities; Whitehand, The Making of the Urban Landscape, Whitehand and Carr, Twentieth-Century Suburbs.
3 Hoskins, The Making of the English Landscape.
4 Whitehand and Birkhamshaw, “Conzenian Urban Morphology”; and see the character area map of his own local area developed for local plan-making, later published in Whitehand, “The Structure of Urban Landscapes”.
5 Whitehand, “Conzenian Research in Practice”, and this point was emphasised in a posthumous presentation of the same name at the 27th annual conference of the International Seminar on Urban Form, June 2021.
6 Larkham and Conzen (eds), Shapers of Urban Form.
7 Oliveira (ed.) J.W.R. Whitehand and the Historico-Geographical Approach to Urban Morphology.
8 Whitehand, “Urban Fringe Belts”.
9 Whitehand, “Fringe Belts”; Whitehand, “Building Cycles”; Whitehand, “Urban Rent Theory”.
10 Whitehand and Morton, “Urban Morphology and Planning”.
11 Comments at a meeting of the UK Local Planning Officers’ Society, 24 June 2021.
12 Whitehand, ‘Institutional Site Planning”.
13 Larkham, “The Importance of Observation”.
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Peter J. Larkham
Peter Larkham is a former PhD student and long-standing colleague of, and co-editor with, Jeremy Whitehand. He is Professor of Planning at Birmingham City University, a former Editor of Planning History and is currently Editor of Urban Morphology. His current work focuses on the post-Second World War reconstruction of towns and cities in the UK and most recently on its heritage, especially that of bombed churches.