Peter Hall: 45 books
Making an Exhibition of Myself: the autobiography of Peter Hall
The Autobiography of Peter Hall
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
The story of a railway worker’s son who became one of the most powerful, outspoken and charismatic figures in European theatre. Sir Peter Hall has been director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, artistic director of Glyndebourne, and director of Britain’s National Theatre from 1973 to 1988. He...
Peter Hall's Diaries
The Story of a Dramatic Battle
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
A new edition of Sir Peter Hall's Diaries with an introduction from the man himself. A fascinating read for any fan of theatre history in Britain.
Sociable Cities
The 21st-Century Reinvention of the Garden City
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard’s To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 – an event they then marked by co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile edition of Howard’s original, long...
by Peter Hall
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
In these four lectures Peter Hall reveals a lifetime of discoveries about classical theatre, Shakespeare, opera and modern drama. The central argument is that form and structured language paradoxically give freedom to power of thought and feeling, much as the masks of early Greek drama enabled actors...
by Peter Hall
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
This is the ebook edition of Peter Hall's best-selling guide to acting Shakespeare that has sold over 10,000 copies. This is a new edition for a new generation – compact and concise with the facts, the way modern students and actors need it. The pay off the book according to Sir Peter is simple...
Cities of Tomorrow
An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Peter Hall’s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth edition offers a perceptive, critical, and global...
by Peter Hall
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Why you should be reading this book.
To the victims of crime: Make no mistake about it, after reading this book, you will know beyond a reasonable doubt that prisoners in jail are suffering. Whether it is on the city, county, or state level, prisoners are living in a world that far extends...
Urban Future 21
A Global Agenda for Twenty-First Century Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Prepared for the World Commission on Twenty-First Century Urbanization Conference in Berlin in July 2000. This book is an entirely new and comprehensive review of the state of world urban development at the millennium and a forecast of the main issues that will dominate urban debates in the next 25...
Race, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism
Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This book examines how teachers, administrators, and educational institutions contribute to racial and ethnic inequality and offers policy and practice suggestions for change. It reviews the literature, the national societal and cultural contexts, definitions of race and ethnicity, family influences,...
by Peter Hall, Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
This is the fifth edition of the classic text for students of urban and regional planning. It gives an historical overview of the developments and changes in the theory and practice of planning, throughout the entire twentieth century.
This extensively revised edition follows the successful...
Good Cities, Better Lives
How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This book has one central theme: how, in the United Kingdom, can we create better cities and towns in which to live and work and play? What can we learn from other countries, especially our near neighbours in Europe? And, in turn, can we provide lessons for other countries facing similar dilemmas?
Urban...
Fractured Communities
Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twenty-first century as those surrounding the impacts of unconventional natural gas and oil development using hydraulic drilling and fracturing techniques—more...
by Georges Feydeau, Peter Hall, Nicki Frei
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1994
Georges Feydeau (1862-1921), the supreme master of farce, devoted his skills to exploding hypocrisy in a very self-important age. An Absolute Turkey (Le Dindon) is one of his best loved plays. He displays all his dramatic tricks as the characters are pulled back and forth by an escalating series of...