Sir Peter Hall
In Context - Local identity is a national stew
18 May 2012The massive thumbs down that electors in most major cities gave to the idea of local elected mayors two weeks ago was a huge governmental own goal.
In Context - Blackpool needs a tram lifeline
04 May 2012Gathered in a room on Blackpool's promenade for a European Union workshop about trams, we paused every ten minutes as the resort's new Bombardier vehicles glided across the horizon.
In Context - Moving around our liquid asset
20 April 2012"Water, water, every where/Nor any drop to drink."
Irony of new EU regional aid cash
05 April 2012By now, turning wearily to the final page of this issue of Planning, you undoubtedly know everything you ever wanted to about the revised National Planning Policy Framework - and maybe more. So consider, instead, an item from the previous issue, whic...
In Context - Will loans move unstick market?
26 March 2012Around the corner from me in west London, there's a remarkable sight to mark the onset of spring: a developer is building a house. Not a £5 million job for multinational oligarchs; this isn't their territory. Nor a quick-build apartment job in Stratf...
In Context - Transport links fall in the gap
09 March 2012Sir Peter Hall says the time has come for someone to take responsibility for connections between transport modes in the UK
In Context - Economic slump is a skills issue
24 February 2012Sir Peter Hall reflects on the need for skills investment in Britain
In Context - Mayors may not boost leadership
10 February 2012Sir Peter Hall wades into the debate on regional mayors
In Context - Regional lessons from Danish TV
27 January 2012Sir Peter Hall suggests that Britain learns from Denmark and moves to rebalance the broadcasting economy
In Context - Manufacturing? Look to Germany
13 January 2012Sir Peter Hall suggests that our European cousins may have the key to reviving Britain's manufacturing sector
In Context - Transport boost will take time
16 December 2011When China got hit by the global economic crisis four years ago, its answer was straight out of the economics textbook: boost Keynesian counter-cyclical infrastructure spending.
In Context - Private incentive but public risk?
05 December 2011Last month, I was at London mayor Boris Johnson's launch of the latest part of his London Hub Airport report, which has become a serial (part two is out now - wait with bated breath for the next thrilling instalment).
In Context - Giants grapple over transport
18 November 2011Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome into the ring the contenders for the bout of the century!
In Context - Riots shine light on underclass
04 November 2011Many of the defendants accused of participation in the August riots shared characteristics which suggest that more needs to be done to tackle social and educational exclusion, says Sir Peter Hall
Sir Peter Hall - Mayor waits on airport launch
21 October 2011Boris Johnson remains ferociously determined to get his Thames Gateway Airport.
In Context - Planning reform is in the balance
07 October 2011Sir Peter Halls attempts to define the government's 'presumption in favour of sustainable development'
In Context - Ingenious house builders wanted
23 September 2011Reading the accounts of Steve Jobs' exit last month from Apple, the thought occurred that there's an uncanny parallel between his career and that of engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
In Context - PM reaches for Dizzy's heights
09 September 2011Sir Peter Hall mulls the effect a former prime minister's outlook has had on today's planning system
In Context - Rioting: a theory from the 1970s
26 August 2011Sir Peter Hall explores the theory of rioting and a possible solution to England's social unrest
In Context - New framework is hardly radical
12 August 2011According to some commentators who really should know better, the Government's new draft national planning policy framework (NPPF) marks the end of planning as we've known it, a ceremonial burning of the historic Town and Country Planning Act 1947 an...
Sir Peter Hall is Bartlett profesor of planning and regeneration at the University of College London. He was chairman of the Town and Country Planning Association. He is joint editor of the journal Built Environment.
- Election-time 2015
- Chips versus diamonds
- Back to basics
- Cuts set to hit drive for northern growth
- Driving seat
- Buying renewal
- An unholy mix
- Paring down
- Great care at low cost
- Keynesian concession
- Urban sage saw how web would change us
- The ratchet effect
- Dividing lines
- From space to time
- Transforming DNA
- Technology transforms geography
- Social contracts
- Cities are virtually safe in digital future
- Educational disadvantage
- Boomerang kids
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