Today the latest issue of Built Environment, published by Alexandrine Press, becomes available with full open access on Ingentaconnect:
It is authored by thirteen of Peter Hall’s former PhD students across a span of half a century, from his first supervision at LSE in 1965 to his most recent here at UCL.
There are contributions from Yuko Aoyama (Clark University, MA), Scott Campbell (University of Michigan), Chia-Lin Chen (UCL), Sabina Deitrick (University of Pittsburgh), Amy Glasmeier (MIT), John Goddard (Newcastle University), Nick Green (University of Liverpool), Basak Demires Ozkul (Istanbul Technical University), Erica Schoenberger (Johns Hopkins), Marc Weiss (Global Urban Development), Peter Williams (Cambridge) and Ray Wyatt (Melbourne University). The collection is edited by Michael Hebbert (UCL) and includes an epilogue by Ann Rudkin (Alexandrine Press) with whom Peter worked as editor for almost forty years.
The collection has a double interest, for what it reveals about Peter’s extraordinarily wide-ranging research legacy, and for affectionate insights into his personality and mode of working. Highlights include:
- how he provided an insider track for John Goddard’s analysis of the London office market of the 1960s
- his early leadership in the computer revolution in geography, as evoked by Ray Wyatt
- at the University of California Berkeley in the 1980s, his involvement in the activist, experimental work of the Western Urban and Regional Collective
- the ‘side-trips’ that enabled him to research the seminal history Cities of Tomorrow while investigating the geography of the U.S. defence budget
- his knowledge of the blues
- how he flew to Australia and back (almost) the following day
- and lots more !