The Planning Imagination
Peter Hall and the Study of Urban and Regional Planning
Knighted in 1998 ‘for services to the Town and Country Planning Association’, and in 2003 named by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a ‘Pioneer in the Life of the Nation’, Peter Hall is internationally renowned for the breadth and depth of his studies and writings on urban and regional planning. For the last 50 years, he has captured and helped to create the ‘planning imagination’.
Here the editors have brought together in five themes a series of critical reflections on Peter’s vast and diverse contributions. Those reflections are provided by colleagues familiar with his work.
The five parts are devoted to Peter Hall’s breadth of academic work, covering the history of cities and planning, London, spatial planning, connectivity and mobility, and urban globalization. Finally, as a sixth part, the editors have asked Peter Hall himself to reflect on his career and the sources of his imagination.
The story this book tells is not one of a singular, totally consistent theoretical and philosophical view elaborated over several decades. Rather it covers a set of views that necessarily admits signs of Peter’s inconsistency and imperfection over the years – the insights and imperfections that inevitably accompany the exercise of a nonetheless remarkably fertile, restless and inspiring planning imagination.
Editors are:
Mark Tewdwr-Jones is Professor of Town Planning at Newcastle University
Nicholas A. Phelps is Professor of Urban and Regional Development at University College London
Robert Freestone is Professor of Planning at the University of New South Wales
Contents
- Foreword. 1. Geography, History and the Planning Imagination
- Part One: History of Cities and Planning. 2. Urban and Regional Planning. 3. Great Planning Disasters. 4. Cities of Tomorrow. 5. Cities in Civilization
- Part Two: London’s Growth and Development. 6. London’s Economy: From Resurgence to Recession to Rebalancing. 7. London 200 and 2001. 8. Working Capital
- Part Three: Spatial Planning. 9. Regional Planning. 10. The Containment of Urban England. 11. Sociable Cities. 12. Regeneration: The Inner City in Context. 13. Non-Plan
- Part Four: Connectivity and Mobility. 14. The Information Age and Technological Change. 15. Technopoles of the World. 16. Transport and Planning
- Part Five: Globalized Urbanization. 17. The World Cities. 18. The Polycentric Vision. 19. Europe 2000: A Pioneering Work. 20. Urban Futures
- Part Six: A Unique Combination of Ideas. 21. Apologia pro Vita Sua
- Peter Hall Bibliography
September 2013 - 328 pages
Hardback; 0978-415-50607-6 - £105.00
Paperback: 0978-415-50608-3 - £34.99
