Peter Hall
Town planner, urbanist and geographer
Sir Peter Geoffrey Hall (19 March 1932 – 30 July 2014) was an English town planner, urbanist and geographer. He was the Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett, University College London and president of both the Town and Country Planning Association and the Regional Studies Association.2
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Born Mar 19, 1932, died Jul 30, 2014.1
About
Hall was one of the most prolific and influential urbanists of the twentieth century.
He was known internationally for his studies and writings on the economic, demographic, cultural and management issues that face cities around the globe. Hall was for many years a planning and regeneration adviser to successive UK governments. He was Special Adviser on Strategic Planning to the British government (1991–94) and a member of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Urban Task Force (1998–1999). Hall is considered by many to be the father of the industrial enterprise zone concept, adopted by countries worldwide to develop industry in disadvantaged areas.
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Companies
- BestinvestChief executive officer14
Early life and education
- Date not recordedSt Catharine's College Doctor of Philosophy; geography3
- Date not recordedBlackpool Grammar School3
- Date not recordedSt Catharine's College master's degree; geography3
In a 1977 address to the Royal Town Planning Institute, Hall put forth the idea of a "Freeport" within a city, a concept that would come to be known as an Enterprise Zone. Enterprise Zones were to be open to immigration of capital and people, without taxes or bureaucracy, modeled after Hong Kong in the 1950s. In practice, Enterprise Zones became areas where taxes were waived and development highly subsidized.
In his final years, Hall strongly perceived that British planners had fallen behind their European counterparts. His last book Good Cities: Better Lives and last book chapter "The Strange Death of British Planning: And How to Bring About a Miraculous Revival", both published in 2014, stress this point and seek to direct attention to planning examples from mainland Europe. His vision of clusters of existing towns and new garden cities to form new dynamic city regions in the north-west, the Midlands and the south-east of England won his team a commendation in the Wolfson Economics Prize competition in May 2014.
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Career
Occupation: geographer, urban planner, university teacher.7
- Until 1992Professor, University of California, Berkeley4
- 1992 to 2014Professor, University College London4
- 1968 to 1989Professor, University of Reading4
- Since 1966Reader, London School of Economics and Political Science4
- Since 1957Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London4
- Date not recordedChief executive, Bestinvest5
- Date not recordedPresident, Regional Studies Association6
- Date not recordedPresident, Town and Country Planning Association6
Personal life
Awards
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