The Planning Imagination by Tewdwr-Jones, Mark; Phelps, Nicholas; Freestone, Robert;

Rövid leírás:

A book devoted to town planner Professor Sir Peter Hall’s breadth of academic work, covering the history of cities and planning, London, spatial planning, connectivity and mobility, and urban globalization.

Hosszú leírás:

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.

Tartalomjegyzék:

1. Geography, History and the Planning Imagination Nicholas A. Phelps, Mark Tewdwr-Jones and Robert Freestone  2. Urban and Regional Planning Susan Fainstein  3. Great Planning Disasters Michael Batty  4. Cities of Tomorrow Robert Freestone  5. Cities in Civilisation John Rennie Short  6. London’s Economy Ron Martin  7. London 2000/2001 Michael Hebbert  8. Working Capital Chris Hamnett 9. Regional Planning John Glasson 10. The Containment of Urban England Tony Champion and John Goddard  11. Sociable Cities Dennis Hardy  12. Regeneration: The Inner City in Context Nick Bailey  13. Non-Plan Philip Allmendinger 14. The Information Age and Technological Change Edward J. Malecki  15. Technopoles of the World Julie Tian Miao 16. Transport and Planning David Banister 17. The World Cities Peter J. Taylor  18. The Polycentric Vision Robert C. Kloosterman and Bart Lambregts  19. Europe 2000: A Pioneering Work Andreas Faludi  20. Urban Futures Simin Davoudi  21. Apologia pro Vita Sua Peter Hall