Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

Preface to the Fourth Edition xii

Preface to the Third Edition xiii

Preface to the First Edition xv

1 Cities of Imagination 1
Alternative Visions of the Good City, 1880–1987

2 The City of Dreadful Night 12
Reactions to the Nineteenth-Century Slum City: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1880–1900

3 The City of By-Pass Variegated 49
The Mass Transit Suburb: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900–1940

4 The City in the Garden 90
The Garden-City Solution: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900–1940

5 The City in the Region 149
The Birth of Regional Planning: Edinburgh, New York, London, 1900–1940

6 The City of Monuments 202
The City Beautiful Movement: Chicago, New Delhi, Berlin, Moscow, 1900–1945

7 The City of Towers 237
The Corbusian Radiant City: Paris, Chandigarh, Brasília, London, St Louis, 1920–1970

8 The City of Sweat Equity 291
The Autonomous Community: Edinburgh, Indore, Lima, Berkeley, Macclesfield, 1890–1987

9 The City on the Highway 325
The Automobile Suburb: Long Island, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, Paris, 1930–1987

10 The City of Theory 385
Planning and the Academy: Philadelphia, Manchester, California, Paris, 1955–1987

11 The City of Enterprise 414
Planning Turned Upside Down: Baltimore, Hong Kong, London, 1975–2000

12 The City of the Tarnished Belle Époque 443
Infocities and Informationless Ghettos: New York, London, Tokyo, 1990–2010

13 The City of the Permanent Underclass 485
The Enduring Slum: Chicago, St Louis, London, 1920–2011

Bibliography 529

Index 608

About the Author

Peter Hall is Professor of Planning at the BartlettSchool of Planning at University College London. He is the authorof nearly 30 books in planning and related subjects, includingLondon 2000 (1963), The World Cities, third edition(1984), High Tech America (with Ann Markusen & AmyGlasmeier, 1986), Great Planning Disasters (1992), and Cities inCivilization (1999). He has been credited with the invention ofthe Enterprise Zone concept, which has been widely employed in theUSA and Europe. An advisor to governments and internationalagencies across the globe, Professor Hall is known throughout theworld for his contribution both to the theory and to the practiceof city and regional planning.

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