About the Book
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 Contents:
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.
