FBA, MAE, PhD, HonMRTI
Bartlett Professor of Planning
He has received the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for distinction in research, and is an honorary member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He was a founder member of the Regional Studies Association and first editor of its journal Regional Studies. He was Chairman of the Town and Country Planning Association (1995-1999).
Sponsor: ESRC (Cities Program)
Period: 01/01/98 - 30/06/2000
This joint project with the University of Reading, the University of Essex and the London School of Economics is one of the major "integrated city projects" projects in the ESRC's "cities programme". Its aim is to examine the way in which processes affecting urban competitiveness, and social cohesion interact in the particular context of a large, heterogeneous and fragmented metropolitan area, with an internationally oriented service economy, and a complex structure of urban governance. Whereas past research on such cities has tended to see patterns of social inclusion and exclusion, and associated social problems, simply as a consequence of economic processes, this project will give greater weight to the effects of social cohesion (or its absence), and environmental quality on the ability of a city to compete successfully. It will also examine how the network based pattern of urban governance, emerging since GLC abolition, can manage to integrate concerns with cohesion and competitiveness, across the various spatial scales (from neighbourhood to metropolitan region) over which significant economic and social externalities operate in such a city. The project will examine these issues in a three stage study (over a period of 3 years), relating (i) analyses of city-wide change to (ii) in depth studies of contrasting localities, and (iii) investigation of the changing policy system.
Sponsor: BM Bau (German Ministry for Building and Planning)
Period: 09/06/97 - 15/01/98
This was a component of the Urban 21 project, currently in progress, designed to provide input to the report of a World Commission of experts chaired by Professor Hall, which will be published in 2000. It sought to write scenarios of likely economic and social change in a number of key cities around the world in the first years of the 21st century, and then to show how these would impact on the lives and lifestyles of representative individuals in those cities.
Sponsor: Chelsfield PLC
Period: 04/11/98 - 03/09/99
This study seeks to achieve two objectives: first, to map the changing national hierarchy of town centres over the 20 th century, using as a basis the studies of Smailes (1944) and Smith (1967); second, to map the changing internal patterns of retailing and other activities in selected town centres in Greater London and the West Midlands conurbation since ca 1970. The objective is to understand the nature and scale of the underlying dynamics of town centre competition. (Joint research with Dr Michelle Lowe, University of Southampton).
Sponsor: EPSRC
Period: 01/10/97 - 31/12/98
The objective of this research is to understand how the numbers and modal distribution of commuter movements in the "Greater South East" of England, and the changes between the 1981 and 1991 Censuses, are related to a number of possible explanatory variables including density of employment of residence, distance from London and distance from other settlements. It is hoped that the output may contribute to the contemporary debate about the most sustainable way of accommodating the region's share of the 4.4 million additional households projected for England between 1991 and 2016.
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); Growth Centres in the European Urban System (with D. Hay) (1980); The Inner City in Context (ed., 1981); Silicon Landscapes (with A. Markusen, 1985); Can Rail save the City? (with C. Hass-Klau, 1985); High-Tech America (with A. Markusen and A. Glasmeier, 1986); The Carrier Wave (with P. Preston, 1988); Cities of Tomorrow (1988); London 2001 (1989); The Rise of the Gunbelt (with A. Markusen, S. Campbell and S. Deitrick, 1991); and Technopoles of the World (with M. Castells; 1994). His book Sociable Cities, co-authored with Colin Ward, was published in October 1998 to launch the centenary of the Town and Country Planning Association. His Cities in Civilization, a study of creativity in cities down the ages, was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in London in November 1998 and by Pantheon Books in New York in December 1998.