Name：Peter Hall 

Birth: 19 March 1932

Current Position:

The Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The BartlettUniversity College London

President of both the Town and Country Planning Associationand the Regional Studies Association

Professional Experience:

A key planning and regeneration adviser to successive UKgovernments

Was Special Adviser on Strategic Planning to the British government(1991-1994)

Appointed Professor of Geography and Head of Department at the University of Reading(1968)

Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley(1980s)

Fellowships:

A Fellow of the British Academyand a member of the Academia Europea

A Fellow of the British Academy and the European Academy

A founder member of the Regional Studies Association and first editor of its journal Regional Studies

Prizes

Holds fourteen honorary doctorates from universities in the UK, Sweden and Canada

An honorary member of the Royal Town Planning Institute, which awarded him its Gold Medal in 2003

Received the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for distinction in research

Holds fourteen honorary doctorates from universities in the UK, Sweden and Canada

Received the 2005 Balzan Prize for work on the Social and Cultural History of Cities since the Beginning of the 16th Century

Research:

London: Economic Competitiveness and Social Cohesion

Sponsor: ESRC (Cities Program)
Period: 01/01/98 - 30/06/2000

Publication: Buck, N., Gordon, I., Hall, P., Harloe, M., Kleinman, M. (2002) Working Capital: Life and Labour in Contemporary London. London: Routledge.

Social Change from the Individual Standpoint

Sponsor: BM Bau (German Ministry for Building and Planning)

 Period: 09/06/97 - 15/01/98

Publications

Hall, P., Pfeiffer, U. (2000) Urban Future 21: A Global Agenda for Twenty-First Century Cities. London: Spon.

Publication: Titheridge, H., Hall, P. (2006) Changing Travel to Work Patterns in South East England. Journal of Transport Geography, 14, 60-75.

Hall, P., Pain, K. (2006) The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe. London: Earthscan.

Editor

London 2000 (1963, 1969)

The World Cities (1966, 1977, 1983)

Planning and Urban Growth: An Anglo-American Comparison (with M. Clawson) (1973)

Urban and Regional Planning (1975, 1982)

Europe 2000 (ed., 1977)

Great Planning Disasters (1980)

Cities of Tomorrow (1988)

London 2001 (1989)

Technopoles of the World (with M. Castells; 1994)

Cities in Civilization (1998)

Urban Future 21: A Global Agenda for Twenty-First Century Cities (with U. Pfeiffer; 2000)

Working Capital: Life and Labour in Contemporary London (with N. Buck, I. Gordon, M. Harloe, and M. Kleinman; 2002)

To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (ed. with D. Hardy, and C. Ward; 2003)

The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe (with K. Pain, 2006).