Peter Geoffrey Hall - Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880

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2. Chapter 03
3. Chapter 04
4. Chapter 05
5. Chapter 06
6. Chapter 07
7. Chapter 08
8. Chapter 09
9. Chapter 10
10. Chapter 11
11. Chapter 12
12. Chapter 13

This is nothing less than a history of the ideology and practice of urban planning through the century. Its all in this most readable tour de force, which makes a whole series of fascinating connections. The Architectural Review

This is the one book you have to read. American Planning Association Journal

Peter Hall is renowned for his critical texts on planning and urban studies, and this updated edition of Cities of Tomorrow is no exception. Writing with such enthusiasm and flair, Hall takes the reader on an enthralling journey through the history of city planning. The Geographical Journal

This classic history of modern urban planning has now been updated for the new century with a third edition. Cities of Tomorrow is an excellent guide to the urban development of the 20th century, and a good platform from which to view the evolution of the 21st. Urban Land

Peter Hall

Fourth Edition

This fourth edition first published 2014
2014 Peter Hall

Edition history: Basil Blackwell Ltd (1e, 1988), Blackwell Publishers Ltd (2e, 1996); Blackwell Publishing Ltd (3e, 2002)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hall, Peter, 1932
Cities of tomorrow: an intellectual history of urban planning and design since 1880 / Peter Hall. Fourth edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-118-45647-7 (paperback)
1. City planning History 20th century. I. Title.
HT166.H349 2014
307.12160904dc23
2013047879

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Cover image: Rundhaus at Rmerstadt, Frankfurt, Germany by Ernst May, 19268.
Photo Photography Eduardo Perez
Cover design by Simon Levy

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• Little Collingwood Street, Bethnal Green, ca. 1900
• The Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes in Session, 1884
• Charles Booth
• Berlin Mietskasernen (tenements)
• New York Dumbbells (Old Law Tenements)
• Jane Addams
• Chicago tenement life, ca. 1900
• Old Oak Estate, built ca. 1913
• Norbury Estate, built ca. 1921
• Ealing Tenants Meeting, ca. 1906
• Charles Tyson Yerkes
• Frank Pick
• Albert Stanley, Lord Ashfield
• Homes Fit for Heroes
• Raymond Unwin
• Nothing Gained by Overcrowding!
• Cottage Homes for the People
• By-Pass Variegated
• The Great West Road
• Ebenezer Howard
• Garden Cities of To-morrow
• New Earswick
• Letchworth
• Barry Parker
• Ealing Garden Suburb
• Henrietta Barnett
• Hampstead Garden Suburb
• Sunday lunch in Welwyn Garden City
• The Mall, Welwyn Garden City
• Frederic Osborn
• Margarethenhhe
• Rmerstadt.
• Siemensstadt.
• Onkel-Toms-Htte
• Clarence Stein
• Forest Hills Gardens
• Radburn
• Greenbelt
• Rexford Guy Tugwell
• Patrick Geddes
• Lewis Mumford
• The Outlook Tower
• The Valley Section
• The Process of Conurbation, right and wrong
• The RPAA Manifesto
• Catherine Bauer
• Norris, Tennessee
• The New Town idea from Howard to Abercrombie
• Daniel Burnham
• The Chicago Plan of 1909
• Chicago Civic Center
• New Delhi
• Planning New Delhi
• New Delhi: Lutyenss Bakerloo
• Canberra
• Walter Burley Griffin
• Speers Berlin
• Le Corbusier and Unit
• Louis XIV commands the building of the Invalides
• La Ville Radieuse
• Chandigarh; Corbusian city design
• Chandigarh; the peoples city behind the facades
• Braslia
• Taguatinga, Braslia
• Bombed London East End street
• The Great Rebuild in the East End
• PruittIgoe
• San Martn de Porres, Lima, 1962
• Lightmoor, Telford New Town
• Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
• Jones Beach
• AVUS
• Broadacre City
• Kansas City, Country Club District
• Levittown, Long Island
• The Las Vegas Strip
• The first Holiday Inn
• Vllingby
• Farsta
• Marne-la-Valle
• Patrick Abercrombie
• Thomas Adams
• T. J. Kent, Jr
• Melvin M. Webber
• Manuel Castells
• Liverpool
• Boston, Quincy Market
• Baltimore, Inner Harbor
• London Docklands: before and after
• Paul Reichmann
• Thames Gateway
• Pudong
• La Dfense
• Sustainable development
• Jaime Lerner
• Wulf Daseking
• Rieselfeld
• Chicago slum, ca. 1900
• Dr Robert E. Park
• Chicagos Little Hell, 1902
• Murder in Chicago race riot, 1919