缅北禁地

I have a background in architectural and urban design (BSc and MSc), and in urban planning, and heritage studies (PhD), and I now research and teach across and between those areas. I draw on a variety of social and creative methods to explore the understandings people have of our urban landscapes, about what they are, what they do, and the ways they are cared for, about, and with.

In my research, I include elements of urban and planning history, heritage planning, and governance of the built environment, usually centring on re-use and re-design, and working in collaboration with people in the heritage sector. In those settings, I am particularly interested in the political and socio-ethical nature of building(s), and the context of practices we label as 'heritage'.

My research currently focuses on the question “Who do we (not) care for, by (not) caring for this heritage?” I explore care and care ethics perspectives to help us rethink the ways we ‘do’ heritage. Care – rather than just conservation – includes a much wider range of practices, for example, the maintenance, use, engagement, governance, and rejection of heritage. More importantly, I think care can help us think through the ethics of conservation and the way it reproduces injustices as it shifts our focus from materiality to relationality, on ongoing care relations between people through heritage, and between people and heritage.

Co-director of the Centre for Heritage (Heritage NUCoRE)

past and current projects

• Campus Legacies Walk, 缅北禁地 Centre for Heritage. with Black History Month funding, Co-I with Prof Annie Tindley and
• The uses of space by artists within 缅北禁地 and Gateshead, with Kitty McKay, Jenny Mc Namara, Daniel Newberry and Dr. Emma Coffield.
• Making Space / Keeping Space / Extending Space: Building the Impacts of the Sunderland Heritage Lab (Led by Dr. Ashley Mason)
• (2018-2022) a ‘Research and Innovation Action’ funded under H2020), on adaptive heritage reuse practices and policies. In this project, we look at the practices, processes, and policies of adaptive heritage reuse. Our aim here is to experiment with co-creative, participatory, finance, and management innovations, whilst reflecting on them constructively and critically. With , John Pendlebury, Ashley Mason, and previously Dr. Emma Ormerod, and Dr. Miranda Iossifidis. Our main case study was in (UK).
• Towards more inclusive heritage policies: ‘Blue Plaques’ in Tyne and Wear, with John Pendlebury and the , see also e.g. here and
• The Clayton Street Corridor: Engaging the grassroots arts sector. , PI Dr. Emma Coffield.
• , Month Theme in the 'OurWorldHeritage' initiative, recordings can be found on the website as well as on YouTube with Dr. Tokie Laotan-Brown and Prof Sophia Labadi (2021)
• (2017-2018) PI John Pendlebury
• (2015-2018) Conservation planning in Norway, Italy, Ireland, and England, PI John Pendlebury

Postgraduate Researchers I work with

Recently completed

2024 Dr. Byung Choon (Brian) Hwang Community Participation in South Korean Heritage-led Regeneration

2025 Dr. Gulnur Cengiz Narrating Sunderland: Exploring the Complex Relationships between Authorized Heritage, Community Values, and the Evolving Nature of Heritage as a Social Construct

Currently working on their thesis

Elena Balzarini Ecologies of the domestic threshold in UK multi-unit housing

Minki Sung Heritage and Power in South Korea. 

Sinan İhtiyaroğlu Exploring the Intersection of Hegemonic Discourse and Local Heritage: Towards a Dialogical Understanding of Adaptive Heritage Reuse

I am the Degree Programme Director for the BA (Hons) in Architecture and Urban Planning and teach across the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, on undergrad and postgrad degrees, both studio-based and classroom-based modules.

Currently, I teach on the following modules:

TCP1027 Shaping Towns and Cities (Planning History, lead)

ARC1007 Architectural Design (project 1)

APL2007 Visual and Creative Research Methods (lead)

APL3007 Dissertation Architecture and Urban Planning

with contributions to various other modules in Urban Planning (UG and PGT), Architecture (UG and PGT), and Urban Design (PGT). e.g. ARC8115 MAUD design studio; ARC8051Tools for Thinking; TCP8099 Urban Planning Dissertation

I am also an external Examinor at the

• Articles

  • Pendlebury J, Veldpaus L, Garrow H. . Planning Practice and Research 2023, 38(3), 409-424.
  • Veldpaus L. . Planning Practice and Research 2023, 38(3), 331-339.
  • Veldpaus L, Pendlebury J. . Planning Practice and Research 2023, 38(3), 376-390.
  • Mérai D, Veldpaus L, Pendlebury J, Kip M. . The Historic Environment: Policy and Practice 2022, 13(4), 526-546.
  • Mérai D, Veldpaus L. . The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series: History 2022, 62, 262-271.
  • Pendlebury J, Scott M, Veldpaus L, van der Toorn Vrijthoff W, Redmond D. . European Planning Studies 2019, 28(4), 672-690.
  • Pendlebury J, Veldpaus L. . Planning Theory & Practice 2018, 19(3), 448-453.
  • Law A, Veldpaus L. . Urbanistica Informazioni 2017, 272(Special issue, part 4), 400-408.
  • Veldpaus L, Pereira Roders A. . Change Over Time 2014, 4(2), 244-263.
  • Veldpaus L, Pereira Roders A, Colenbrander BJF. . The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice 2013, 4(1), 3-18.

• Authored Book

  • Veldpaus L. . Eindhoven: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, 2015.

• Book Chapters

  • Merai D, Veldpaus L. . In: Breddels, L; Tetyana, O; Treffers, F, ed. Urban Coalition for Ukraine: Strategies and Proposals. Berlin: DOM Publishers, 2023, pp.162-164.
  • Mason A, Veldpaus L, Hulse M, Pendlebury J. . In: H. Oevermann et al. (eds), ed. Open heritage: community-driven adaptive reuse in Europe: best practice. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2023, pp.36–47.
  • Polyák L, Patti D, Veldpaus L. . In: H. Oevermann et al. (eds), ed. Open heritage: community-driven adaptive reuse in Europe: best practice, edited by. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2023, pp.16-20.
  • Mérai D, Fava F, Veldpaus L. . In: H. Oevermann et al. (eds), ed. Open heritage: community-driven adaptive reuse in Europe: best practice. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2023, pp.180–189.
  • Veldpaus L, Szemző H. . In: Angelika Gabauer, Sabine Knierbein, Nir Cohen, Henrik Lebuhn, Kim Trogal, Tihomir Viderman, Tigran Haas, ed. Care and the City: Encounters with Urban Studies. New York: Routledge, 2022, pp.194-203.
  • Veldpaus L. . In: Taylor J; Institute of Historic Building Conservation, ed. Institute of Historic Building Conservation Yearbook 2021. Wiltshire, UK: IHBC; Cathedral Communications Limited, 2021, pp.29-32.
  • Veldpaus L, Kisic V, Stegmeijer E, Janssen J. . In: Stegmeijer E; Veldpaus L, ed. A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning: Perspectives from Europe. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2021, pp.201-220.
  • Stegmeijer E, Veldpaus L, Janssen J. . In: Stegmeijer E; Veldpaus L, ed. A research agenda for heritage planning: Perspectives from Europe. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, pp.3-20.
  • Veldpaus L, Wacogne R. . In: Stegmeijer, E; Veldpaus, L, ed. A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning: Perspectives from Europe. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, pp.75-86.
  • Veldpaus L, Bokhove Helma. . In: Pereira Roders, A.; Bandarin, F, ed. Reshaping Urban Conservation: The Historic Urban Landscape Approach in Action. Singapore: Springer, 2019, pp.111-122.
  • Veldpaus L, Pereira Roders A. . In: Asikainen S; Brites C; Plebańczyk K; Rogač Mijatović L; Soini K, ed. Culture in sustainability: towards a transdisciplinary approach. Helsinki: University of Jyväskylä, 2017, pp.61-73.
  • Veldpaus L. . In: The HUL Guidebook: Managing heritage in dynamic and constantly changing urban environments. Ballarat, Shanghai: WHITRAP, City of Ballarat, Tongji University, Federation University Australia, 2016, pp.50-55.

• Edited Books

  • Stegmeijer E, Veldpaus L, ed. . Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021.
  • Tomka G, Kisic V, Veldpaus L, ed. . Novi Sad, Serbia; Belgrade, Serbia: Faculty of sport and tourism, Novi Sad; Europa Nostra Belgrade; Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of the City of Novi Sad, 2019.

• Online Publications

  • Veldpaus L, Mason A, Iossifidis M. . Bonn, Germany: ICLEI, 2022. Available at: .
  • Veldpaus L, Krajewska O, Miah J, Szemzö H. . ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, 2020. Available at: .

• Reports

  • Coffield E, Newberry D, McKay K, McNamara J, Veldpaus L. . 2025.
  • Kimvula J, Proctor H, Tindley A, Veldpaus L. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地, 2025.
  • Veldpaus L, Pendlebury J. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: Global Urban Research Unit, 缅北禁地, 2017.

• Reviews

  • Veldpaus L. . Cultural Trends 2015, 24(4), 340-342.
  • Veldpaus L. . Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 2015, 5(3).