Peter Hall (urbanist)

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This article is about the British urban planner and geographer, Sir Peter Hall; for other people called Peter Hall see Peter Hall (disambiguation)

Sir Peter Hall is Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett, University College London and President of the Town and Country Planning Association. He was Special Adviser on Strategic Planning to the British government (1991-94) and a member of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Urban Task Force (1998-1999).

Hall's major published work is Cities and Civilisation in which he argues that 'golden ages' of human culture such as 5th Century B.C. Greece and Elizabethan England were the results of urban expansion (Athens and London) that was produced by some form of centralised plan.

He received the Royal Town Planning Institute Gold Medal in 2003.