Professor Sir Peter Hall: Role Model
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Summary
This issue of Built Environment, written by students and colleagues, celebrates the life and work of Peter Hall.
This issue of Built Environment, written by students and colleagues, celebrates the life and work of Peter Hall. The fourteen contributors cover the entire span of his career from the moment he joined LSE in 1965 through to the intense research activity of his last summer months in 2014. It’s extraordinary to be reminded of the scope of his life-work, the variety of roles he modelled for successive generations of students and colleagues, and the ramifications of his legacy. The papers may be accessed here.
Contents
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Professor Sir Peter Hall: Role Model
Michael Hebbert -
Building Bridges between Economic Geography and Regional Planning: Office Location in London and the South East in the 1960s
John Goddard -
Housing, Planning and Peter Hall: Unfinished Business
Peter Williams -
Sir Peter Hall: A Humane, Urban Polymath
Ray Wyatt -
Elastic Peter
Amy Glasmeier -
Peter Hall Tours the Gunbelt (and Other Side Trips to the Legacies of Ebenezar Howard)
Sabina Deitrick and Scott Campbell -
Peter Hall and the Western Urban and Regional Collective at the University of California, Berkeley
Marc A. Weiss and Erica Schoenberger -
Sir Peter Hall: From Kondratieff Waves to the Soul of the Delta
Yuko Aoyama -
A Relationship of Ideas
Nick Green -
Von Thünen Revisited
Basak Demires Ozkul -
Peter Hall: Inspirer of Railways and Regions
Chia-Lin Chen -
Peter Hall: The Man Who Flew to Australia and Back [Almost] the Following Day
Ann Rudkin
Footnote: The cover Built Environment, Volume 41, number 1 shows Edward Hopper’s Approaching a City, 1946
Oil on canvas, 27 1/8 x 36 in.; 68.8975 x 91.44 cm
Acquired 1947, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
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