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	Sir Peter Hall Spots the Unicorn in the Garden
		Hall’s lecture, The Sustainable City: A Unicorn in the Garden—a title taken from the James Thurber fable—questioned whether “sustainable urbanism is a mythical beast.” The answer, Hall said, is no, but the debate continues as to whether sustainability is best achieved through the buildings themselves or in the spaces between the buildings.
		Hall further conceded that England’s new city of Poundbury—held up by the Prince’s Foundation as a model of sustainability—is not fully integrated with mass transit and, as a general rule, needs to be more fully integrated into the urban fabric of its surrounding area.
		Hall said there is compelling evidence that America is experiencing an “urban renaissance,” with citizens rediscovering the advantages of urban living, particularly in western states where many cities are seeing population and job growth in central urban areas.
	www.asla.org /land/121905/sirpeterhall.html (948 words)

	Philly Congress Builds Momentum for Urbanism and Sustainability in the Mid-Atlantic \| Congress for the New Urbanism
		Renowned planner Peter Calthorpe – creator of new regional plans for Southern California, Dallas, and post-Katrina Southern Louisiana – will champion urbanism's essential role in creating more efficient, healthy regions and challenge the group to pursue a fuller engagement of regionalism and such issues as jobs-housing balance.
		Andres Duany, Laura Hall and others will discuss the ways in which architecture can be accessible without outlawing urban forms such as the rowhouse.
		Peter Park and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk will review attempts to transform urban zoning codes in Miami, Denver, and other big cities.
	www.cnu.org /node/1060 (976 words)

	peter hall information - peter hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Peter's is an Anglican church in the Diocese of Birmingham.
		PETER HALL was raised in Central Valley, a hamlet 50 miles and some light years north of New...
		Peter Hall is Professor of Planning at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London.
	www.ficopeter.info /peterhall (815 words)

	Ripening on the rhine: the Cologne art world of the '80s.(Critical Essay) - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Most of Hall's theories have to do with rich networks of information; the "creative city," he suggests, can be described as a zone of turbulence, an "open system" that allows for heterogeneous inputs.
		Compared to theater, for instance, visual art as we know it in galleries tends to have quite a limited performative aspect, so the performance has to be provided by the crowd around it.
		Koether, herself a painter and writer, soon signed on and introduced new ways of addressing art in its pages: In her "Mrs Benway" column, which appeared in every issue from 1985 to 1990, she tried out every genre of art writing, from the straightforward to the delirious.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-98918660.html (3753 words)

	The President's New Sprawl Initiative: A Program in Search of a Problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		To the extent that new urbanist policies are implemented, air pollution is likely to be increased relative to levels that would be experienced in less dense environments.
		While new urbanist policies may produce small reductions in average automobile miles traveled per capita, the increasing traffic congestion is likely to generate a more than compensating increase in the average hours per capita traveled by automobile.
		New urbanist policies are being proposed at the very time that information technology (such as the Internet) threatens to make urban centers less important.
	www.heritage.org /Research/UrbanIssues/BG1263.cfm (3839 words)

	Sects and the City; The New Urbanists have Forgotten Thousands of Years of History. \| The New America Foundation
		When Fargo, North Dakota, businessman Howard Dahl boards a plane for the East Coast or flies to Europe and beyond, he is often struck by the views of the people he encounters, especially their preconceptions about his part of the country.
		Religion is not exactly a hot topic among new urbanists, who seem to think that good design, coupled with good intentions, is a substitute for a grounded sense of moral order.
		The mosque, suggests Iranian-born urbanist Ali Modarres, served not only as a center of worship, but also as a community center where city problems were addressed.
	www.newamerica.net /publications/articles/2005/sects_and_the_city_the_new_urbanists_have_forgotten_thousands_of_years_of_history (2694 words)

	Preserving Cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hall is a wide-ranging scholar whose intellectual modesty is striking.
		Hall: Yes, at last some economists are admitting that innovation may have something to do with social and cultural factors -- words never uttered by them.
		Hall: You're right, the tremendous push to innovation that came from military expenditures during the Cold War is gone, and hopefully it's gone forever.
	www.lafollette.wisc.edu /reform/Library/Documents/preserving_cities.htm (2623 words)

	New Urbanist Egotism - Cyburbia Forums
		Peter Hall is one of my favourite writers, and I normally agree with most of what he says; the article sums up my own initial thoughts about NU.
		New Urbanist neighborhoods are currently relegated to a niche market, mostly because there are too few of these neighborhoods to create the critical mass of competition needed to make prices more reasonable for the masses.
		The real story should be that new urbanist architects and planners want to implement all of the new urbanist principles at the same time while developing a neighborhood (in general).
	www.cyburbia.org /forums/showthread.php?t=17181 (4048 words)

	So-Called Smart Growth: Elitist Assault On The American Dream
		Ironically, new urbanist policies are being proposed at the very time that information technology (such as the Internet) threatens to make urban centers less important.
		A relatively new school of urban planners, “the new urbanists” blame a number of problems on the expanding urban area, including increased traffic congestion, higher air pollution, the decline of central cities and a reduction in valuable agricultural land (new urbanist policies also go by the label “smart growth”).
		New urbanists have often fought the development of additional “big box” retailers, and Portland has placed significant limits on their size and placement.
	www.i2i.org /Publications/IP/Growth/So-CalledSmartGrowth.htm (6028 words)

	FMF \| The American Metropolis at Century's End: Past and Future Influences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The city, as the great urbanist Lewis Mumford observed, is "the point of maximum concentration for the power and culture of a community" (Culture of Cities, 1938).
		Nevertheless, the grassroots desire to stop sprawl and the loss of open space-combined with the economic imperative that regions with a high quality of life succeed best in the global economy-have made smart growth a movement that politicians and developers must reckon with.
		As the English urbanist Sir Peter Hall has observed, the difficulty in predicting the impact of the Internet on our metropolitan areas can be compared with the difficulty observers faced 80 years ago in predicting the impact of the automobile.
	www.fanniemaefoundation.org /programs/hff/v1i4-metropolis.shtml (4878 words)

	Janine Benyus and Sir Peter Hall
		Sir Peter Hall and Janine Benyus in conversation with Richard Fidler
		As an 'urbanist', Sir Peter Hall spends a lot of time thinking about public spaces.
		He's the Professor of Planning at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning at the University College, London and was also a member of the UK's Urban Task Force, and he's advised the British government on a variety of planning issues.
	www.abc.net.au /queensland/conversations/stories/s1638688.htm?brisbane (706 words)

	Smart Growth and the Ideal City
		While New Urbanists are less concerned about housing everyone in nearly identical apartments, they do promote the idea of mixed-income communities so that the wealthy can rub shoulders with lower-income people.
		The new city was also connected to Halle by an extensive streetcar system and an S-Bahn (commuter-rail line), and the city met the "Ideal Communist City" density of about 70,000 people per square mile.
		Planning historian Sir Peter Hall calls Le Corbusier "the Rasputin of the tale" of authoritarian urban planning, because his "Radiant City" inspired so many bad urban plans around the world, including Halle-Neustadt and American public housing projects.
	ti.org /vaupdate53.html (2125 words)

	Peter Hall (urbanist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article is about the British urban planner and geographer, Sir Peter Hall; for other people called Peter Hall see Peter Hall (disambiguation)
		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).
		Interview with Sir Peter Hall about the future of cities
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Hall_(urbanist) (200 words)

	MEGACITIES LECTURES
		Urbanist Yap Hong Seng, himself being born in Jakarta, did not approve of the comparison of Asian with European cities.
		Urbanists who are dealing with the situation in Holland do not understand the magnitude of this problem.
		The shantytowns of Jakarta are sprawls, by wich Yap meant that they have no structure, control or morphology.
	www.megacities.nl /lecture_3/lecture_report_on.html (560 words)

	H-Net Review: Richard Harris on Cities of the World. A History in Maps
		It is this dual quality of historic maps and panoramic views that intrigues Peter Whitfield and that he uses to gorgeous effect in order to illuminate the changing "spirit" of city life.
		Savannah is shown in Peter Gordon's well-known (but still stunning) panorama of 1734 that displays a raw town hewn from a forest wilderness.
		Isfahan, for which there are apparently no maps from the period of its reconstruction in the early seventeenth century, appears in a modern sketch of the original plan together with a watercolor lithograph published in 1849.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=323391159897868 (753 words)

	Death of the Suburbs?
		As promoted by New Urbanists such as James Howard Kunstler, the peak-oil theory holds that we are running out of oil and that apocalyptically high energy prices will totally disrupt the American way of life.
		As planning historian Peter Hall notes, "Twentieth-century city planning, as an intellectual and professional movement, essentially represents a reaction to the evils of the nineteenth-century city." Whereas the goal of twenty-first-century planning seems to be to return us to those evils.
		Finally, the New Urbanist peak-oil theory presumes that, if they are forced to drive less, Americans will want to move back to the cities and shop in their mixed-use boutiques rather than in supercenters or other suburban stores.
	www.ti.org /vaupdate56.html (3412 words)

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	home.tiscali.de /onlineinfo/prentice-hall-publishing.html (225 words)

	TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
		In the early 1990s, Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch architect and urbanist, picked up Lefebvre’s “the urban” and pushed even further by tackling not only the dilution of the city but, the crisis of urbanism, all those who consider themselves the makers of the city and its strategists.
		His polemic proposal: give up on such a redundant traditional role, simply ignore the crisis (of city and urbanism), and become mere subjects and players of the city.
		With an introduction by Peter Eisenman. Translated by Diane Ghirardo and Joan Ockman.
	www.arch.ttu.edu /people/faculty/mussotter_m/4381/urban.htm (2965 words)

	<<<<BAG'S ARTICLE>>> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Its members continue to work together and exchange ideas, but the demise of the group was hastened by the collapse of their funding programme which coincided with the departure for Europe of their five leading members.
		Urbanist Peter Hall, in his study of creative milieux in European and American history, identifies several factors leading to periods of cultural innovation in urban settings.
		In addition, "structural instability," or an ongoing shift in the organization of society leading to a genuine uncertainty about the future, is often a feature of urban creative milieux.
	www.passinthru.org /bag.html (5276 words)

	JoelKotkin.com - Books
		Drawing upon the inspiration of urbanists and historians, Kotkin (senior fellow, New America Foundation) attempts to define the city throughout human history and into the future.
		This brief, readable volume is based on a wide variety of scholarly English-language studies of world cities from the earliest times to the present.
		Kotkin's is a bracing book, one whose theses and arguments must be taken seriously and dealt with by anyone who wishes to forecast the urban future, or even describe what is going on today.
	www.joelkotkin.com /Books.htm (1816 words)

	The Path of Consequent Logic
		But alas, the New Urbanists all too often betray an animus toward the suburbs that makes you suspect that, given enough power, they would not hesitate to engage in unlimited social engineering to make us all better people.
		At their frothiest, New Urbanists sound like the Swedish social engineers of the 1960s and 1970s, who used housing policy and planning regulations for the purpose of properly "socializing" Swedish citizens.
		In his new book Cities in Civilization, Sir Peter Hall recounts just how loony the Swedish Social Democrats were in their heyday.
	www.pacificresearch.org /pub/cap/1999/99-07-06.html (464 words)

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		From the late 1950’s onward, land use and transportation planning were increasingly influenced by mathematical models that sought to “predict and provide” for new patterns of movement and living.
		According to new urbanist Andreas Duany, the origin of this new “systems-based” approach was returning World War II veterans who had learned certain principles of managing large scale tasks during the war.
		These veterans created a new professional class who were anxious to apply the quantitative techniques, that had been so successful in building munitions and allocating troops, to other managerial tasks such as those encountered by industry, education, government-- and town planning.
	www.americawalks.org /ACCESSIB/ACC_PAPE/AAkins.doc (3243 words)

	Towards a joined up London
		The report was prepared by Drummond Robson, Chairman of the London Branch of the Royal Town Planning Institute with Professor Sir Peter Hall and myself at The Bartlett School, University College London.
		The next stage of study is to be financed by a range of sponsors - public bodies, large and small business firms, professional institutes (the Surveyors, Planners and Architects) and civic bodies - all organised through the multi-professional London Planning and Development Forum.
		The Albert Hall was built by public subscription; this is a planning study financed on the same lines.
	www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk /planning/information/texts/pil.htm (1591 words)

	Top 10 Books - 2002 \| Planetizen
		Progressive town planning is the theme of this important new book, which closely examines the pattern of urban development in the United States over the past half century.
		The authors denounce the community destroying effects of urban sprawl, while prescribing the New Urbanist movement as a solution for creating vibrant cities, towns and neighborhoods.
		Two of the most innovative thinkers in the field of urban design offer a new vision for how metropolitan areas in the United States can grow wisely and overcome sprawl and inequity--by using physical design scenarios as well as regional social and economic policies.
	www.planetizen.com /books/2002 (821 words)

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		Closer to our time, in the 1960s, another British urbanist, Peter Hall, wrote about world cities as places where we find the greatest concentration of political power, trade, rich people and entertai\hich\af0\dbch\af15\loch\f0 n \hich\af0\dbch\af15\loch\f0 ment facilities.
		In a more recent book, in the 1990s, Peter Hall added cultural creativity to the definition of world cities.
	www.cpu.gov.hk /english/documents/conference/e-zukin.rtf (4047 words)

	Amazon.com: "New Urbanists": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Few, though, of the many and different projects New Urbanists claim as theirs have been actually realized and none have met the goals set out in their various charters and...
		The question now is whether New Urbanists have seized upon the only logical, necessarily multi-dimensional definition of what urbanism in American can he.
		Fven John Nolen, who has been adopted by Andres I)uany and other New Urbanists for his formal town centers, incor- porated informal street arrangements in his plans for garden suburbs such as Marienurnt, Ohio,...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/New-Urbanists (392 words)

	Death of the Suburbs?
		As promoted by New Urbanists such as James Howard Kunstler, the peak-oil theory holds that we are running out of oil and that apocalyptically high energy prices will totally disrupt the American way of life.
		As planning historian Peter Hall notes, "Twentieth-century city planning, as an intellectual and professional movement, essentially represents a reaction to the evils of the nineteenth-century city." Whereas the goal of twenty-first-century planning seems to be to return us to those evils.
		Finally, the New Urbanist peak-oil theory presumes that, if they are forced to drive less, Americans will want to move back to the cities and shop in their mixed-use boutiques rather than in supercenters or other suburban stores.
	ti.org /vaupdate56.html (3412 words)

	HDM_5_Books_Vanstiphout
		In 1969 Banham was part of a gang of four — consisting of the professor of planning Peter Hall, the architect Cedric Price, and Paul Barker, the sociologist and editor of Banham’s favorite periodical, New Society — that proposed a radical experiment called Non-plan.
		In the end, it would be reductive to equate Banham’s thinking and writing with a single urbanist model.
		Wouter Vanstiphout is an architectural historian and one of the founders of the Rotterdam research and design firm Crimson.
	www.gsd.harvard.edu /research/publications/hdm/back/5books_vanstiphout.html (1916 words)

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