Abstract
One of Peter Hall’s main themes in his research was the impact of technology on cities and regions. Although his early work was largely about the form and function of cities, particularly world cities, and how the planning system in Britain and America was changing the shape of cities, his first visits to the Far East energised his interest in the way cities were crucibles of creativity and innovation.
Michael Batty, Professor, University College London, UK, Bartlett Professor of Planning. m.batty@ucl.ac.uk
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The Editor of New Society.
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Enormous confusion reigns about these two words especially in Long Wave Theory. Essentially my own interpretation is that they are loose equivalents of one another.
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Strictly he said: “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it” (Planck 1950, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, London, Williams and Norgate, p. 33).
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Batty, M. (2016). Creative Destruction, Long Waves and the Age of the Smart City. 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_6
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