Peter Hall is Professor of Planning at the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London. He is the author of nearly 30 books in planning and related subjects, including London 2000 (1963), The World Cities, third edition (1984), High Tech America (with Ann Markusen & Amy Glasmeier, 1986), Great Planning Disasters (1992), and Cities in Civilization (1999). He has been credited with the invention of the Enterprise Zone concept, which has been widely employed in the USA and Europe. An advisor to governments and international agencies across the globe, Professor Hall is known throughout the world for his contribution both to the theory and to the practice of city and regional planning.

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• List of Figures ixPreface to the Fourth Edition xiiPreface to the Third Edition xiiiPreface to the First Edition xv1 Cities of Imagination 1Alternative Visions of the Good City, 1880–19872 The City of Dreadful Night 12Reactions to the Nineteenth-Century Slum City: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1880–19003 The City of By-Pass Variegated 49The Mass Transit Suburb: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900–19404 The City in the Garden 90The Garden-City Solution: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900–19405 The City in the Region 149The Birth of Regional Planning: Edinburgh, New York, London, 1900–19406 The City of Monuments 202The City Beautiful Movement: Chicago, New Delhi, Berlin, Moscow, 1900–19457 The City of Towers 237The Corbusian Radiant City: Paris, Chandigarh, Brasília, London, St Louis, 1920–19708 The City of Sweat Equity 291The Autonomous Community: Edinburgh, Indore, Lima, Berkeley, Macclesfield, 1890–19879 The City on the Highway 325The Automobile Suburb: Long Island, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, Paris, 1930–198710 The City of Theory 385Planning and the Academy: Philadelphia, Manchester, California, Paris, 1955–198711 The City of Enterprise 414Planning Turned Upside Down: Baltimore, Hong Kong, London, 1975–200012 The City of the Tarnished Belle Époque 443Infocities and Informationless Ghettos: New York, London, Tokyo, 1990–201013 The City of the Permanent Underclass 485The Enduring Slum: Chicago, St Louis, London, 1920–2011Bibliography 529Index 608