Books by Peter Hall
“This is the masterwork written by the world’s greatest 20th century scholar and historian of cities. Peter Hall was a professor working mainly at University College London, but he travelled widely to learn and lecture on how cities developed and operated. This book details how cities of the past were innovative for their day, and how technology changed them. If anyone wants to understand cities of the future, our topic here, it’s critical to understand what future cities from the past can teach us.” Read more...
The best books on Future Cities
Davina Jackson, Architects & Architectural Historian
Diaries
by Peter Hall
The book shows what it must be like to sit in that office on the Southbank and run this complex organisation and define what a 'National Theatre' is for.
Interviews where books by Peter Hall were recommended
The best books on 20th Century Theatre, recommended by Michael Billington
Britain’s most experienced theatre critic, Michael Billington, selects five essential books for understanding 20th-century drama, from the birth of method acting to the stresses of running a national theatre.
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City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn
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The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture: City, Technology and Society in the Information Age
by Federico Soriano, Fernando Porras, José Morales, Manuel Gausa, Vicente Guallart & Willy Müller -
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Cities In Civilization
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The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks, Hackers and the Future of Urban Life
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Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design and the Nature of Cities
by Nicholas de Monchaux
The best books on Future Cities, recommended by Davina Jackson
The best books on Future Cities, recommended by Davina Jackson
We are a city-dwelling species. Our urban existence creates both opportunities and challenges, as the recent pandemic has illustrated. One thing seems clear, however. Understanding the way we interact with our built environment is becoming an increasingly data-driven enterprise, as Davina Jackson argues compellingly in her book, Data Cities. Here, she shares the five books that best explain the technology behind the urban planning of the future.
