Sir Peter Hall [UK] Urbanist, geographer
London looks East: Docklands, Thames Gateway and the Stratford Olympics
6 Mar 2013, 21:30
Wednesday
Auditório de Serralves, Porto

[EN] The cycle of Lectures and Public Talks, named as “The Rescued City”, organized by the Portuguese Council of Architects – Northern Chapter(Cultural, Communication and North 41 Departments), deepens the debate, begun in 2012, on the processes of Urban Regeneration, at national and international levels. With this debate we wish to go beyond the simple “rescue” of consolidated centres; we wish to embrace the wider city, especially the post-industrial fringes and voids, sensing their strategic role in that regeneration process. We wish, at last, to debate that process in an interdisciplinary way, encompassing the contributions of Urbanism, Architecture, Landscape Design, Geography, Sociology, Anthropology, and even Philosophy.

This cycle will follow other specific initiatives such as the completion of an Open Competition and of an International Seminar, which will bring that debate into specific areas, taking the Oporto urban fabric as a case-study. The Cycle “The Rescued City” starts in its best way: with Sir Peter Hall, the narrator of “Cities of Tomorrow”, exponents of our urban civilization. His awaited conference, organized in partnership with the Center for Studies of Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT), will be commented by Nuno Portas, Professor of Urbanism at the University of Porto.

Sir Peter Hall is Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and has taught at the London School of Economics, the University of Reading and the University of California at Berkeley. From 1991–94 he was Special Adviser on Strategic Planning to the UK Secretary of State for the Environment, with special reference to Thames Gateway and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. He was a member of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Urban Task Force (1998–99), the Expert Advisory Committee to the Barker Review of the planning system (2006) and the Eco-Towns Challenge Panel (2008).
He is author, co-author or editor of nearly 40 books on urban and regional planning and related topics, including The World Cities, Urban and Regional Planning, Cities of Tomorrow, Cities in Civilization, Urban Future 21 and The Polycentric Metropolis.

Ticket: 4,00 euros
Sale point: Serralves box office, Monday to Sunday, 10:00–18:45

Promoter: OASRN; Norte 41º
Sponsor: Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Partner: Fundação de Serralves 

Gold founder sponsor: AXA; Osvaldo Matos; Tintas Robbialac; Knauf Gmbh Portugal
Silver founder sponsor: Enor; Ferfor; Carvalho, Batista; Ksb, Bombas e Válvulas;Tecnicon, SA Papélia, Lda
Alfa founder sponsor: Onduline; CS Coelho da Silva; Padimat; JNF - J. Neves & Filhos; Valadares; Reiman, Fassa Lusa;Socequi; Lopes Gonçalves & Pinto Almeida, Lda – Graf em Portugal; Tafibra – Sonae Indústria