The Annual Sir Peter Hall Lecture: Everyday Urbanism for Planners
25 May 2023, 6:00 pm–7:00 pm

The prestigious annual lecture pays tribute to the late Sir Peter Hall, a global figure in the study of cities and regions and their planning and BSP professor.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Victoria Howard
Location
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Jeremy Bentham RoomMain BuildingUCL, Gower StreetLondonWC1E6BT
Normative planning practice is future-oriented, normative, and generalizable. Plans, regulations, and "best practices" to guide the work of many planners. Can everyday urbanism concepts that are rooted in the present, emphasize specificity and avoid abstraction become planning tools?
This presentation argues that these ideas and the assumptions behind them can broaden and deepen planning practices and improve urban environments and lives.
All are welcome to join. The event will be followed by a drinks reception.
About the Speaker
Margaret Crawford
Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley
Margaret Crawford teaches courses in the history and theory of architecture, urbanism and urban history and studios focusing on small scale urbanity.
Her research focuses on the evolution, uses and meanings of urban space. She has written and edited several books including Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns, The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment and Daily Urban Life and Everyday Urbanism, and, most recently co-edited a four volume compilation on Urbanization in China. She has published numerous articles on shopping malls, public space, and other issues in the American built environment. Recent projects include a book investigatingthe rapid physical and social changes in China’s Pearl River Delta and California “ethnoburbs.” She has also taught at SCI-Arc, the Harvard GSD, the University of Southern California, the University of Florence, Italy, and South China University of Technology. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship, two Fulbright Fellowships to S.China, Quadrant Fellowship, James Marsden Fitch Foundation and Graham Foundation grants.
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