Dr. Patrick Lamson-Hall

Research Lead, Urban Expansion & the Periphery

Patrick Lamson-Hall is a co-founder and the Principal Urban Planner at Fitted Projects, a leading firm in the planning of new cities and urban special economic zones. As a working planner, he has developed new city projects and urban plans in over thirty cities in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America, including ZEDE Morazan in Honduras. He is an affiliated scholar at the New York University Marron Institute of Urban Management. He has collaborated on urban planning projects with the Cities Alliance, the Rockefeller Foundation, Bloomberg Associates, UN-Habitat, and the World Bank. As a researcher, his projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation. He is a globally recognized expert on urban growth and urban density and has developed new planning techniques for low-income cities experiencing rapid growth. He is an author of the Atlas of Urban Expansion: 2016 Edition and frequently contributes academic papers to leading journals. He holds a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning and a PhD in Public Administration from the NYU Wagner School of Public Service. Follow him on Twitter @plamsonhall.

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Publications

‘The State of the Streets: Measurements of Connectivity in the Atlas of Urban Expansion’ (Forthcoming: 2024). Patrick Lamson-Hall and Shlomo Angel. Inequalities from Space. Ed. Monika Kuffer and Georganos Stefanos. Springer.
‘On-Road Energy Efficiency and CO2 Reduction Strategies in a Small Island State: Grenada’ (2023). Peter Marcotullio, Shelby Smith, Patrick Lamson-Hall and Shlomo Angel. Urban Energy and Climate Volume 8, 225-263.
‘The Ethiopia Urban Expansion Initiative and Knowledge Exchange’ (2022). Patrick Lamson-Hall and Richard Martin. Buildings and Cities 3 (1), 772-791.
‘Managing Migration in Secondary Cities: Planning for Equity and Growth’ (2022). Patrick Lamson-Hall, Shlomo Angel and Tsigereda Tafesse. Cities Alliance/UNOPS Flagship Report. 1 August 2022.
‘Informal settlements in Lusaka’ (2022). Dennis Chiwele, Patrick Lamson-Hall and Shahruhk Wani. International Growth Centre Policy Brief. 1 August 2022.
‘Climate Resilient Urban Expansion Planning’ (2022). Patrick Lamson-Hall and Shlomo Angel. Cities Alliance/UNOPS Report. 15 July 2022.
‘Urban expansion planning and climate change’ (2021). Patrick Lamson-Hall. The Cities Alliance Blog, 31 October 2021.
‘Anatomy of Density: measurable factors that constitute urban density’ (2021). Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall and Zeltia Gonzalez-Blanco. Buildings and Cities 2 (1).
‘Densify and Expand: A Global Analysis of Recent Urban Growth’ (2021). Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Alejandro Blei, Sharhad Shingade, Suman Kumar. Sustainability 13 (7), 3835.
‘Prospectus of city growth: Rethinking planning in Amman’ (2021). Fuad Malkawi, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Sandra Hiari. International Growth Centre Blog, 14 June 2021.
‘Planning for Growth: How to Manage Rapid Urbanization’ (2021). Patrick Lamson-Hall. Urbanet Editorial, 18 February, 2021.
‘In defence of density’ (2020). Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Oliver Harmon, Shahrukh Wani. International Growth Centre Blog, 3 July 2020.
‘How can small islands survive the coming climate crisis? Plan for smaller aid budgets and more disasters’ (June 22, 2020). Patrick Lamson-Hall. Medium. Web: https://bit.ly/3lVjnJq
‘After the Lockdown Lifts, We Need to Make Cities Liveable for Migrants’ (2020). Patrick Lamson-Hall and Harshita Agrawal. The Wire, India.
‘Coronavirus and the Cities: Explaining Variations in the Onset of Infection and in the Number of Reported Cases and Deaths in US Metropolitan Areas as of 27 March 2020’ (March 31, 2020). Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Maria Monica Salazar Tamayo. Marron Institute Working Paper.
‘A New Plan for African Cities: The Ethiopia Urban Expansion Initiative’ (2018). Patrick Lamson-Hall, Shlomo Angel, David DeGroot, Richard Martin, Tsigereda Tafesse. Urban Studies 56 (6), 1234-1249.
‘Our Not So Urban World’ (2018). Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Bibiana Guerra, Yang Liu, Nicolas Galarza and Alejandro Blei. Marron Institute Working Paper.
‘Planning for Resilient Urban Growth: Tools for Proactively Managing Rapid Urban Growth’ (2018). Patrick Lamson-Hall, Mark Hildebrand, Shlomo Angel. 100 Resilient Cities Toolkit.
‘Housing Affordability in a Global Perspective’ (2018). Achilles Kallergis, Shlomo Angel, Yang Liu, Alejandro Blei, Nicolas Galarza Sanchez, Patrick Lamson-Hall. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Atlas of Urban Expansion: 2016 Edition (2016). Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Manuel Madrid, Alejandro M. Blei, and Jason Parent with Nicolas Galarza Sanchez and Kevin Thom. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
‘The Rise and Fall of Manhattan’s Densities’ (2014). Shlomo Angel and Patrick Lamson-Hall. Marron Institute of Urban Management Working Paper.