Critical Urban Heritage

Engaging with heritage as a key shaper of urban experience and identities, the urban environment, and urban futures.

Street scene in Gothenburg with a car passing and posters stuck to a piece of street furniture
Gothenburg, Sweden.
Clare Melhuish

Professorial Research Fellow in Anthropology of Built Environments

UCL Urban Laboratory

Alongside Clare's research on universities as actors in urban regeneration, she has led on a number of cross-disciplinary urban heritage research programmes and activities within Urban Lab, focusing on postcolonial and decolonial urban contexts. Contact clare.melhuish@ucl.ac.uk to propose activities or connect with our work under this Priority Area.

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Report published on LGBTQ+ spaces in Camden, 1986-present
Report published on LGBTQ+ spaces in Camden, 1986-present

Report published on LGBTQ+ spaces in Camden, 1986-present

Commissioned by Camden and UCL Public Policy this report highlights the borough's LGBTQ+ day and night-time spaces. It documents a roundtable that brought the council, community organisations and businesses together to discuss ways to support these spaces into the future.

30 Apr 2020

Evaluating the impact of university development on urban areas and heritage
Evaluating the impact of university development on urban areas and heritage

Evaluating the impact of university development on urban areas and heritage

Research scoping workshop hosted by Dr Clare Melhuish as a follow-up to an initial collaborative workshop at Roma Tre University in Rome in May 2019, funded by the UCL Cities partnerships Programme.

13 Dec 2019

Caribbean School of Architecture urban study visit to London
Caribbean School of Architecture urban study visit to London

Caribbean School of Architecture urban study visit to London

Urban Lab was delighted to help host the Caribbean School of Architecture’s MArch, Year 1, Urban Study visit to London at the end of November, led by Head of School Jacquiann Lawton.

03 Dec 2019