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I am using the word polymath to describe the remarkable range of Peter Hall’s scholarship as a means of avoiding popular terminology that promotes disciplinary thinking through its inter- or multi- or cross-variations.
Peter J. Taylor, Professor, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, Professor of Human Geography; crogfam@yahoo.com.
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Peter’s work in this intersection is specifically represented by Hall/Pain (2006).
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Peter was a central figure in both the Town and Country Planning Association and the Regional Studies Association through his career.
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The Garden City Association was formed in 1899, became the Garden City and Town Planning Association and then the Town and Country Planning Association; the statutory basis of UK planning was set out in the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947.
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Taylor, P.J. (2016). A Polymath in City Studies. In: Knowles, R., Rozenblat, C. (eds) Sir Peter Hall: Pioneer in Regional Planning, Transport and Urban Geography. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol 52. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28056-1_2
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