ABSTRACT
Peter Hall's London 2000 was published by Faber in 1963 and republished in a substantially enlarged second edition in 1969. His London 2001 was published by Unwin Hyman in 1989. The books belong to a rare genre. Few authors have single-handedly attempted to write spatial strategies for a metropolitan region, as the young Birkbeck geographer did in 1963. Nobody commissioned the research and the author had no backing team of statisticians and modellers to figure out the data for a territory stretching from Andover to Chelmsford or Poole to Cambridge, depending on the definition of London and its region, that being a research project in itself. The first edition, written when many of the 1961 Census results were still unobtainable, was an amazing technical as well as literary achievement.
