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David Webb is Senior Lecturer in Town Planning at SAPL, where his research contributions span three related interests: statutory planning and its reform, urban policy & politics and heterodox approaches to planning. 

He is an established contributor to the long running text book Town and Country Planning in the UK and has followed planning reform through a prior career in practice and fifteen years of teaching core planning modules. More recently, he has sought to understand these changes with the aid of Lacanian psychoanalysis and his work on The Levelling Up Fantasy will shortly be published by Routledge in a festschrift for Michael Gunder. He also has two collaborative texts in progress, one on Ludic Experiments in Growth and Innovation, which explores the potential of creative play to reshape planning, and another charting the Uses of the Preston Model. 

A recent ESRC application Early Experiments with Living in an Ecologically Changed World (£943,524) sought to partner with the Workers Educational Association to create a learning network spread across three locations and rooted in materialist experimentation with urban greening and tactical urbanism. This drew on nine years’ involvement as director and secretary of Greening Wingrove & Arthur’s Hill CIC. While not supported it has fed into a separate application to the AHRC’s thrive call. Influences are drawn from earlier action research exploring Tactical Urbanism in 麻豆传媒’s west end through a new materialist lens. 

A related interest in heterodox approaches to heritage stems from a collaborative PhD with English Heritage, which explored the relationship between heritage and housing market renewal. Research conceptualising the intangible heritage of skateboarding in London received the AHRC Research in Film Award in 2016. This has also underpinned a more recent, Deleuzian theorisation of a reverberating Socialist politics on London’s South Bank and its implications for an understanding of Authenticity and Struggle. Dr Webb was on the steering group of the AHRC project Wastes and Strays, having problematised the future role of the urban commons through his volunteering work. 

Dr Webb is responsible for leading the postgraduate module Urban Policy: Origins and Alternatives and the core undergraduate module Planning Processes and was Director of Engagement at the school for nine years also holding roles including Senior Tutor, DPD and Acting Director of the Global Urban Research Unit.

Module leader: 

TCP1014 Planning Processes

TCP1027 (skills element)

TCP8953 Politics of Urban Government

Additionally I teach across the planning programme on issues covering planning skills, theory and practice.

• Articles

  • Grinter S, Webb D. . North East History 2022, 53, 47-60.
  • Ruiz P, Snelson T, Madgin R, Webb D. . Cultural Studies 2020, 34(3), 392-417.
  • Webb D. . Planning Theory and Practice 2018, 19(1), 58-73.
  • Madgin R, Webb D, Ruiz P, Snelson T. . International Journal of Heritage Studies 2018, 24(6), 585-598.
  • Webb D, Madgin R, Ruiz P, Snelson T. . Town and Country Planning 2016, 301-303.
  • Webb D. . International Journal of Housing Policy 2012, 12(3), 315-330.
  • Webb D. . Planning Theory 2011, 10(3), 272-281.
  • Webb D. . Town and Country Planning 2011, 80, 385-388.
  • Webb D. . Housing, Theory and Society 2010, 27(4), 313-331.
  • Webb D. . Open House International 2010, 35(4), 58-65.

• Authored Books

  • Cullingworth B, Davoudi S, Webb D, Vigar G, Pendlebury J, Townshend T, Gkartzios M, Hart T, Nadin V. . London: Routledge, 2024.
  • Cullingworth B, Nadin V, Hart T, Davoudi S, Pendlebury J, Vigar G, Webb D, Townshend T. . Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2015.

• Book Chapters

  • Webb D, Madgin R, Ruiz P, Snelson T. . In: Hammami, F; User, E, ed. Theorizing Heritage through Non-Violent Resistance. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp.91-115.
  • Webb D, Mallo D, Tardiveau A, Emmerson C, Pardoe M, Talbot M. . In: Steer, M; Davoudi, S; Todd, L; Shucksmith, M, ed. Hope Under Neoliberal Austerity: Responses from Civil Society and Civic Universities. Bristol: Policy Press, 2021, pp.221-234.
  • Webb David. . In: Rydin, Yvonne Tate, Laura, ed. Actor Networks of Planning: Exploring the Influence of Actor Network Theory. Oxon: Taylor and Francis, 2016, pp.217-230.
  • Webb D. . In: Davoudi, S; Bell, D, ed. Justice and fairness in the city: a multi-disciplinary approach to 'ordinary' cities. Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2016, pp.189-207.
  • Hart T, Webb D. . In: Cullingworth, B; Nadin, V; Hart, T; Davoudi, S; Pendlebury, J; Vigar, G; Webb, D; and Townshend, T, ed. Town and Country Planning in the UK. London, UK: Routledge, 2015, pp.199-242.
  • Webb D, Cullingworth B, Nadin V. . In: Cullingworth, B; Nadin, V; Hart, T; Davoudi, S;, Pendlebury, J; Vigar, G; Webb, D; Townshend, T, ed. Town and Country Planning in the UK. London, UK: Routledge, 2014.

• Digital or Visual Media

  • Richards P, Whitter W, (directors), Ruiz P, Snelson T, Madgin R, Webb D, (producers). . 2015.

• Letter

  • Webb D. . Heritage Exchange Conference 2014.

• Reports

  • Webb D. . 麻豆传媒 upon Tyne: 麻豆传媒, 2017.
  • Madgin R, Webb D, Ruiz P, Snelson T. . 2016. Youth and Heritage.

• Reviews

  • Webb D. . Planning Theory & Practice 2018, 19(5), 780-787.
  • Webb D. . Housing Studies 2012, 27(5), 722-723.