Peter Hall’s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an
unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and
practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and
opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised,
the fourth edition offers a perceptive, critical, and global
history of urban planning and design throughout the
twentieth-century and beyond.
* A revised and updated edition of this classic text from one of
the most notable figures in the field of urban planning and
design
* Offers an incisive, insightful, and unrivalled critical history
of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the underlying
socio-economic challenges and opportunities
* Comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new
research published over the last decade
* Reviews the development of the modern planning movement over
the entire span of the twentieth-century and beyond
* Draws on global examples throughout, and weaves the
author’s own fascinating experiences into the text to
illustrate this authoritative story of urban growth
Table of Content
List of Figures ix
Preface to the Fourth Edition xii
Preface to the Third Edition xiii
Preface to the First Edition xv
1 Cities of Imagination 1
Alternative Visions of the Good City, 1880-1987
2 The City of Dreadful Night 12
Reactions to the Nineteenth-Century Slum City: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1880-1900
3 The City of By-Pass Variegated 49
The Mass Transit Suburb: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900-1940
4 The City in the Garden 90
The Garden-City Solution: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900-1940
5 The City in the Region 149
The Birth of Regional Planning: Edinburgh, New York, London, 1900-1940
6 The City of Monuments 202
The City Beautiful Movement: Chicago, New Delhi, Berlin, Moscow, 1900-1945
7 The City of Towers 237
The Corbusian Radiant City: Paris, Chandigarh, Brasília, London, St Louis, 1920-1970
8 The City of Sweat Equity 291
The Autonomous Community: Edinburgh, Indore, Lima, Berkeley, Macclesfield, 1890-1987
9 The City on the Highway 325
The Automobile Suburb: Long Island, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, Paris, 1930-1987
10 The City of Theory 385
Planning and the Academy: Philadelphia, Manchester, California, Paris, 1955-1987
11 The City of Enterprise 414
Planning Turned Upside Down: Baltimore, Hong Kong, London, 1975-2000
12 The City of the Tarnished Belle Époque 443
Infocities and Informationless Ghettos: New York, London, Tokyo, 1990-2010
13 The City of the Permanent Underclass 485
The Enduring Slum: Chicago, St Louis, London, 1920-2011
Bibliography 529
Index 608
About the author
Peter Hall is Professor of Planning at the Bartlett
School of Planning at University College London. He is the author
of nearly 30 books in planning and related subjects, including
London 2000 (1963), The World Cities, third edition
(1984), High Tech America (with Ann Markusen & Amy
Glasmeier, 1986), Great Planning Disasters (1992), and Cities in
Civilization (1999). He has been credited with the invention of
the Enterprise Zone concept, which has been widely employed in the
USA and Europe. An advisor to governments and international
agencies across the globe, Professor Hall is known throughout the
world for his contribution both to the theory and to the practice
of city and regional planning.
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