Prof Sir Peter Hall, FBA

Career: asst lectr then lectr Birkbeck Coll London 1957-65, reader in geography LSE 1966-67, prof of geography Univ of Reading 1968-89 (emeritus prof 1989-), prof of city and regnl planning Univ of Calif 1980-92 (emeritus prof 1993-), dir Inst of Urban and Regnl Devpt 1989-92, prof of planning UCL 1992-, dir Inst of Community Studies 2001-04; memb various govt bodies incl SE Regnl Econ & Planning Cncl 1960-79; special advsr to Sec of State for the Environment 1991-94; memb Urban Task Force 1998-99; FBA 1983, FRGS

Books and Publications: London 2000 (1963), The Containment of Urban England (1973), Europe 2000 (1977), Great Planning Disasters (1980), High-Tech America (1986), Western Sunrise (1987), Cities of Tomorrow (1988), London 2001 (1989), The Rise of the Gunbelt (1991), Technopoles of the World (1994), Cities in Civilization (1998), Urban Future 21 (2000), Working Capital (2002), The Polycentric Metropolis (2006), London Voices London Lives (2007)