Peter J Larkham is Editor of Urban Morphology. He has been a member of the journal’s
editorial team since its foundation by Jeremy Whitehand in 1997. He has wide editorial
experience, being currently on the Editorial Boards of Planning Perspectives, the Journal of Urban Design, Urban Design International and Sustainability. He has also edited a number of books including Authentic reconstruction: authenticity, architecture and the built heritage (Bloomsbury, 2018, with John Bold and Rob Pickard), Shapers of urban form (Routledge, 2014, with Michael P. Conzen) and Alternative visions of post-war reconstruction: creating the modern townscape (Routledge, 2014, with John Pendlebury and Erdem Erten), and co-authored The everyday experiences of reconstruction and regeneration: from vision to reality in Birmingham and Coventry (Routledge, 2019, with David Adams).

He is Professor of Planning at Birmingham City University, where he moved after a PhD at the University of Birmingham supervised by Jeremy Whitehand, and postdoctoral research funded by the Leverhulme Trust and British Academy. His main research interest is in urban change, particularly how towns and cities changed after the catastrophe of Second World War damage; but he has also worked on urban conservation, urban and landscape design, and urban agriculture. In 2022-23 he celebrated 30 years at Birmingham City University and his 500 th academic publication. These have generated 6002 citations according to the AD Scientific World Scientists Ranking 2023.