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Sir

Peter Hall

Peter Hall at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Born 03 (age 81)

London

Nationality British

Alma

mater

St Catharine's College, Cambridge

Occupation Town Planner

Known for World Cities ranking, urban planning

history, city regions

Peter Hall (urbanist)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sir Peter Geoffrey Hall, FBA (born 19 March 1932) is anEnglish town planner, urbanist and geographer. He is theBartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The

Bartlett, University College London[1] and President of boththe Town and Country Planning Association and the Regional

Studies Association.[2]

He is internationally renowned for his studies and writings onthe economic, demographic, cultural and management issuesthat face cities around the globe. Hall has been for manyyears a planning and regeneration adviser to successive UKgovernments. He was Special Adviser on Strategic Planningto the British government (1991–94) and a member of theOffice of the Deputy Prime Minister's Urban Task Force

(1998–1999).[1] Hall is considered by many to be the fatherof the industrial enterprise zone concept, adopted bycountries worldwide to develop industry in disadvantagedareas.

Contents

1 Biography

1.1 Early years

1.2 Career2 Honours and awards

3 Publications

4 References

5 External links

Biography

Early years

Hall was born in London, England and went on to graduate from St Catharine's, Cambridge with a Master’s degreeand Doctorate before starting his academic career in 1957 as lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London.He later became a reader in geography at the London School of Economics. Hall was a founding editor of theacademic journal Regional Studies which has become a leading international journal in its area.

Career

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In 1968, Hall was appointed Professor of Geography and Head of Department at the University of Reading. Heremained Geography Head of Department until 1980 but in the meantime became Chairman of the Planning Schoolfrom 1971 for a total of 9 years until 1986 as well as Dean of Urban and Regional Planning for 3 years. Runningparallel through the 1980s, he was also Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the Universityof California, Berkeley. He left Reading in 1989 and Berkeley in 1992 to take up the Chair of Planning at TheBartlett, University College, London, where he remains today.

Hall has studied to the world’s cities from multiple angles – economic, demographic, cultural and managerial. Hehas written and edited nearly 40 books, some of them translated into several other languages. His first prominentbook was The World Cities published simultaneously in 6 languages in 1966. A Chinese edition came out in 1982,a year before the English third edition. The research encompassed was ahead of its time; it is only since the mid-1980s that world cities became a major school of urban research.

Of his writings devoted to contemporary problems of urban planning in Britain, Europe and the USA, one of thebest known is The Containment of Urban England (1973), an analysis of the British town and country planningsystem, based on a formidable amount of statistical research. It focuses on the processes of urban growth inEngland and Wales since World War II and describes how the planning movement tried to contain and guide it.

Hall charted the history of modern attempts to shape and control the development of the city. He co-wroteSociable Cities (1998), an analysis of the legacy of Ebenezer Howard, whose Garden Cities of To-Morrow(1902), became the most influential and important book in the history of 20th-century city planning. That same year,Professor Hall published his wide-ranging Cities in Civilization: Culture, Technology and Urban Order, an1169-page venture into the comparative cultural history of cities, which investigates the exceptional culturalcreativity which distinguished the world’s great cities in their golden ages, from ancient Athens to late 20th-centuryLondon. In 2006, he completed direction of a two-year, seven-country study of Polycentric Mega-City-Regions inEurope, financed by a €2.4 million grant from the European Union.

Honours and awards

Hall received in 2001 the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize and later in 2003 won the Royal TownPlanning Institute Gold Medal along with the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for distinction inresearch. In 2005, he won the Balzan Prize for the Social and Cultural History of Cities since the Beginning ofthe 16th Century. He won the award "for his unique contribution to the history of ideas about urbanplanning, his acute analysis of the physical, social and economic problems of modern cities and his powerful

historical investigations into the cultural creativity of city life."[3] In 2008 Hall was awarded the RegionalStudies Prize for Overall Contribution to the Field of Regional Studies.

Hall is a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the Academia Europea as well as the Austrian Academyof Sciences. He holds fourteen honorary doctorates from universities in the UK, Sweden and Canada. Hall wasknighted in 1998 for services to the Town and Country Planning Association. He has been on the Board ofTrustees of The Architecture Foundation.

Publications

Peter Hall. 1963. London 2000, London, Faber & Faber, 1963, 1969

Peter Hall. 1966. The World Cities, London, World University Library, Weidenfeld & Nicolson,1966,1977,1983 (French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish translations published simultaneously)

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Peter Hall. 1973. The Containment of Urban England (with H. Gracey, R. Drewett and R. Thomas),

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd.; Beverly Hills, Sage Publications Inc., 1973. Two volumes: volume oneUrban and Metropolitan Growth Processes or Megalopolis Denied; volume two The Planning System:

Objectives, Operations, ImpactsPeter Hall and M. Clawson. 1973. Planning and Urban Growth: An Anglo-American Comparison.

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins.Peter Hall. 1975. Urban and Regional Planning. Hardmondsworth/London, Penguin, 1975, 1982;

Newton Abbott, David and Charles, 1975; London, Routledge, 1992, 2002Peter Hall (ed.). 1977. Europe 2000. London, Duckworth

Peter Hall. 1980. Great Planning Disasters. London, Weidenfeld.Peter Hall and D. Hay. 1980. Growth Centres in the European Urban System. London, Heinemann.Peter Hall (ed.). 1981. The Inner City in Context. London, Heinemann.

Peter Hall and Ann Markusen (eds.) 1985. Silicon Landscapes. Boston, Allen & Unwin.Peter Hall and C. Hass-Klau. 1985. Can Rail save the City? The Impact of Rail Rapid Transit and

Pedestrianisation on British and German Cities . Aldershot, Gower Publishing.Michael J. Breheny, Douglas A. Hart, Peter Hall 1986. Eastern Promise? Development Prospects for the

M11 Corridor. Spatial and Economic Associates, Faculty of Urban and Regional Studies, University ofReading.

Peter Hall, A. Markusen and A. Glasmeier. 1986. High-Tech America: The What, How, Where and Whyof the Sunrise Industries. Boston, Allen & Unwin.

Peter Hall, Michael J. Breheny, Ronald McQuaid, Douglas Hart. 1987. Western Sunrise: The Genesis andGrowth of Britain's Major High Tech Corridor. Unwin Hyman.Peter Hall and P. Preston. 1988. The Carrier Wave: New Information Technology and the Geography

of Innovation 1846-2003 . London, Unwin Hyman.Peter Hall. 1988. Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the

Twentieth Century. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 1988, 1996, 2002Peter Hall. 1989. London 2001. London, Unwin Hyman.

Peter Hall,A. Markusen, S.Campbell and S. Deitrick. 1991. The Rise of the Gunbelt: The MilitaryRemapping of Industrial America. New York, OUP.

Peter Hall and M Castells. 1994. Technopoles of the World: The Making of 21st-Century IndustrialComplexes. London, Routledge.Michael J Breheny and Peter Hall (eds.) 1996. The people - where will they go? National report of the

TCPA Regional Inquiry into Housing Need and Provision in England. Town and Country PlanningAssociation.

Peter Hall and Colin Ward. 1998. Sociable Cities (with Colin Ward), Chichester, John Wiley & Sons.Peter Hall. 1998. Cities in Civilization: Culture, Technology, and Urban Order. London, Weidenfeld &Nicolson, 1998; New York, Pantheon Books, 1998

Michael J Breheny and Peter Hall (eds.) 1999. The people - where will they work? National report of

the TCPA Regional Inquiry into Housing Need and Provision in England. Town and Country Planning

Association.

References

1. ̂a b The Bartlett biography (http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/planning/people/profiles/p_hall.htm)

2. ^ Regional Studies Association (http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/)

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3. ^ UCL News on Balzan Prize 2005 (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0509/05092301)

Honorary Degree Orations, Loughborough University 2005UCL News 2005,Thames Gateway Forum 2006 (Dr Jabed Rahman)

External links

Interview in The Guardian, 2007(http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/jun/20/regeneration.communities)

Transcript of Peter Hall's keynote presentation at Thames Gateway Forum, 22/23 November 2006 (PDF,

28KB) (http://www.thamesgatewayforum.com/files/Peter_Hall.pdf)

Peter Hall at "Pioneers of Qualitative Research" from the Economic and Social Data Service(http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/pioneers/pioneerdetail.asp?id=pioneer_people_hall)

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