Sir Peter Hall Research Articles

20th Biennial Conference of the International Planning History Society 2–5 July 2024 (Hong Kong) prizes and awards

ABSTRACT The winners of the IPHS 2024 Prize and Awards were announced at the Awards Ceremony at the Hong Kong Conference on 4 July 2024. This year, the recipients include the Planning Perspectives Prize, IPHS Book Prizes, Anthony Sutcliffe Dissertation Award, IPHS Best Postgraduate Planning History Paper Prize, Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Achievement, the East Asia Planning History (EAPH) Prize, and IPHS Professional Commendation Award. However, the Koos Bosma Prize in Planning History Innovation was not awarded as no submission met the criteria. The Judging Panel Reports provide additional information and commendations.

19th IPHS Conference, 5–6 July 2022 (Delft, The Netherlands) prizes and awards

ABSTRACT IPHS offers prizes and awards in urbanism, history, planning and the environment, mainly focusing on cities from the late nineteenth century. This year IPHS 2022 Prize and Award Winners were announced at the Awards Ceremony, which took place at the Delft Hybrid Format Conference on the 6th of July 2022. At the ceremony, IPHS Planning Perspectives Prize, IPHS Book Prizes, Anthony Sutcliffe Dissertation Award, IPHS Best Post-Graduate Planning History Paper Prize, Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Achievement, East Asia Planning History (EAPH) Prize, and Koos Bosma Prize in Planning History Innovation have found their owners. This document provides information about the Prize and Award winners and their award-winning works and includes commendations based on the Judging Panel and Committee Reports.

Redakteursbrief/Editoral/Lengolo la phatlalatso

In his classical book, ‘Cities of tomorrow: An intellectual history of urban planning and design since 1880’, the late, Professor Sir Peter Hall presents a critical history of planning theory and practice in the twentieth century. The critique is linked to the socio-economic constraints and opportunities that emerge and are emerging in advancing the city artefact as a civilising tool. In essence, humankind has been consumed by the need to make great places that are able to serve humanity’s changing needs and expectations.

High Speed Rail in Northern England Tactics and Policies for Implementing Mega Plans by Modular Incrementalism

Britain lags behind many other countries in its provision of high-speed rail. This paper looks in depth at the challenges of providing high-speed rail links, east–west, across Northern England, identi fied as a key issue by former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne in his Northern Powerhouse speech in 2014. We ask what can be learned from the politics of Britain's successful motorway programme in the 1960s and 1970s, and from the plan advanced for High Speed North by the late Professor Sir Peter Hall and colleagues, published some weeks before Osborne's speech. Introducing the concept of centripetal urban dynamics, we doubt whether the suppression of public transport demand by the Covid 19 virus will be long lasting. Thus the Hall Plan still has remarkable relevance, especially in its tactics for sequencing investment, which we term modular incrementalism. Some updating is needed, so that the investment strategy focuses on super critical problems for rail investment. We conclude with recommendations for the High Speed North project itself and re flect on wider implications for decision-making processes.

18th IPHS conference 15–19 July 2018 Yokohama prizes and awards

ABSTRACTThe IPHS 2018 Prize and Award Winners were declared at the Awards Ceremony which took place at the Yokohama Conference on 18 July 2018. This year, IPHS Planning Perspectives Prize, IPHS Book Prizes, Anthony Sutcliffe Dissertation Award, IPHS Best Post-Graduate Planning History Paper Prize, and Sir Peter Hall Award For Life Time Achievement have found their owners. East Asia Planning History (EAPH) Prize and Koos Bosma Prize in Plannıng History Innovation were not given since the jury has not found any submission worthy of the prize. Information is given including commendations based on the Judging Panel Reports.

Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Achievement in Planning History 2018

The IPHS Council meeting in Delft in July 2016 endorsed the idea to award a suitable prize in the name of Sir Peter Hall (1932–2014). In turn, his widow Magda sanctioned the Society's use of his na...

SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY AND “LEGACY LANDSCAPES”

This piece pays tribute to a great scholar and urbanist, Sir Peter Hall, who was concerned with the social and economic vitality of neighborhoods. In his 1988 book, Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century, Hall writes about the Garden City, exploring both the original vision as imagined by Ebenezer Howard and the global di- aspora of Howard’s ideas. Hall also discusses the theoretical contribution of Garden Cities today, especially with regard to issues of social equity and so- cial sustainability. This piece critically re-examines the Garden City concept, including its utopian social origins, its implementation on a global scale, and its impact on current planning theory and practice. I illustrate how Hall and others have affected the canonical garden cities literature, and have created a “legacy landscape” concept that is still relevant today in new sustainable development.

The Cambridge Shakespeare Group in South Africa, July-August 1964: A personal recollection

The (other) quatercentenary year 1964 was the 400th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. At Stratford-upon-Avon, there were special celebrations. Under Sir Peter Hall's direction, a special programme of the Henry VI and Richard III plays, The Wars of the Roses, was performed. A new Shakespeare Centre was opened, where visitors could study every aspect of the Bard's work. Representatives from 115 countries of the world came to unfurl their national flags at Stratford on St George's Day, 26th April, the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. Wreaths were laid. Souvenirs were manufactured. The Post Office in the UK produced a special issue of stamps and a gift set of coins and a stamp was available. Sir Laurence Olivier appeared in Othello at the National Theatre.

Howard and Hall: Practical utopians?

This short paper reviews the late Sir Peter Hall’s update of the book that he wrote with Colin Ward — ‘Sociable cities’ — and compares him with Sir Ebenezer Howard as a utopian visionary, strategic planner, visionary and land economist, and suggests the role that new Garden Cities can play in meeting Britain’s housing needs.

In Memoriam: Professor Sir Peter Hall

In Memoriam: Professor Sir Peter Hall

Sir Peter Hall: From Kondratieff Waves to the Soul of the Delta

Sir Peter Hall: From Kondratieff Waves to the Soul of the Delta

Peter Hall: Inspirer and Innovator of Railways and Regions

112 BUILT ENVIRONMENT VOL 41 NO 1 commitment to regeneration strategies for vulnerable cities is less well documented. Therefore, this paper draws on my personal observations and experiences to illustrate a wider and more holistic representation of Peter’s numerous contributions and interventions. There are five parts: the first part looks at the aspects of Peter’s comprehensive thinking that have influenced my research; section two focuses on how Peter influenced HSR policy in the UK, specifically as a means to exploit HSR’s potential for wider regional benefits. Section three illustrates Peter’s persistent commitment to Blackpool’s regeneration, while section four describes Peter’s personal characteristics, his working philosophy and the key characteristics necessary for being a planner; these in themselves deserve to be highly respected. Finally, his influence on my future development is discussed in the conclusion. Six years ago, I was lucky enough to start working with Professor Sir Peter Hall – one of the most infl uential planners in modern Britain. He was a highly esteemed scholar and planner, globally renowned for his work, but despite this he was amazingly approachable. While under his supervision, we worked closely looking at the impacts of high-speed rail (HSR) on cities and regions, and later I was appointed as a research associate to work under his leadership for the EU Interreg IVB SINTROPHER Project – his uncompleted project addressing the connectivity of fi ve peripheral regions in North West Europe. The whole experience gave me the opportunity to observe and learn from him. Although Peter’s considerable contribution to research on world cities, technopoles, enterprise zones, garden cities, and new towns etc. has been well appreciated and discussed, his concern for regional inequality as well as his Peter Hall: Inspirer and Innovator of Railways and Regions

Professor Sir Peter Hall: Role Model

Professor Sir Peter Hall: Role Model

Briefing: Design and the lost art of urbanism

In his final book Sir Peter Hall, with the author's help, chose some 20 European cities to explain how the UK (and USA) could transform their situation by applying the ‘art of urbanism’. German cities best show how to boost the local economy, French cities transport, Dutch cities housing and Scandinavian cities the environment. However, all share a common approach in which local authorities lead the way, and use good urban design to reshape their urban areas, and create better lives for their residents.

An ‘old fashioned’ geographer

Sir Peter Hall, who passed away on 30 July 2014, was best known for his contribution to urban planning scholarship and policy, but his training in, and early career orientation to, human geography instilled a strong spatial imagination in his work. His name is indelibly associated with important urban and regional planning concepts of enduring significance, including global, polycentric, and garden cities. Hall was an accomplished communicator with an encyclopaedic knowledge of urbanism and a sensibility to both history and futures research. He was a prolific author whose outputs not only crossed the town-gown divide but captured, on their own terms, the productive nexus between geography and planning.

Obituary: Professor Sir Peter Hall

Obituary: Professor Sir Peter Hall

Sir Peter Hall, 1932–2014: “Seize the hour and the day”

Sir Peter Hall, 1932–2014: “Seize the hour and the day”

A tribute to sir Peter Hall

A tribute to sir Peter Hall

Professor Sir Peter Hall (1932–2014)

Professor Sir Peter Hall (1932–2014)

Review of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (directed by Sir Peter Hall) at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, 13 February 2010

This production came laden with history. Peter Hall first directed A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Royal Shakespeare Company more than half a century ago, in 1959. In 1962 Judi Dench joined his r...