Pablo Sendra
Professor of Urban Design and Public Participation at University College of London
Pablo Sendra is architect training and combines teaching and research with the professional practice of urban design. It is currently professor of Urban Design and Public Participation at the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London and has also taught at Cambridge University.
His academic work has focused on investigating the possibilities of regeneration of marginal urban areas that have become obsolete. In addition, he is also director of the company Lugadero, an urban design studio that focuses on facilitating co-design processes with communities.
He is co-author of the book Designing Disorder (with Richard Sennett, 2020), which has been translated into eight languages, co-author of Community-Led Regeneration (with Daniel Fitzpatrick, 2020) and co-editor of Civic Practices (with Maria Joao Pita and CivicWise, 2017). He is part of the City Collective for City magazine.
Featured works
Community-Led Regeneration A Toolkit for Residents and Planners (UCL Press, 2020), co-written with Daniel Fitzpatrick. Through seven London case studies of communities opposing the demolition of social housing, it provides a planning toolkit that residents and planners can use to propose community-led schemes.
Design the mess. Experiments and disruptions in the city (Alianza Editorial, 2021), a two-part essay where, together with the prestigious sociologist Richard Sennett, he deploys urban design proposals to create cities that coexist with the disruption and diversity that inhabit them.
