Rural planning and policy

This thought-provoking book questions the framework of the Horizon 2020 strategy and the policies of smart development.

American Indian reservation planning is one of the most challenging and poorly understood specializations within the American planning profession.

Rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders.

As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use.

Change is inevitable in all communities: they both grow and decline.

Rural Development in Practice focuses on the evolving nature of rural development in the Global South.

An examination of poverty dynamics and developmental failure, shifting emphasis from development as control to development as coping strategy.

Alvar Aalto and The Art of Landscape captures the essence of the Finnish architect's landscape concept, emphasising culture and tradition, which characterised his approach to and understanding of architecture as part of the wider environment.

The Protection of Green Spaces for Climate Change Adaptation identifies how spatial planning and climate change adaptation are linked by examining the protection of green spaces in cities across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America and Australia.

Small and mid-sized suburban towns house two-thirds of the world's population and current modes of planning for these municipalities are facing challenges of both philosophy and form.

Housing problems have become increasingly complex in the Global South.

Originally published in 1978.

Food has become an essential component in community development practice.

Change is inevitable in all communities: they both grow and decline.

Agricultural Geography has changed dramatically in recent decades, reflecting the transformation of the farming industry itself.

A history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in the arid savannah landscape of Namibia.

Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock.

This book introduces the principles of landscape stewardship in relation to sustainability governance, applying them to a broad range of land-use systems.

A major new introduction to the UK planning system.

More than a tenth of the land mass of the UK comprises 'urban fringe': the countryside around towns that has been called 'planning's last frontier'.

Should rural Britain be preserved from urban development, or should people be allowed to live and shop where they want?

In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations.

Covid-19 was a canary in a mine.

Increasingly, community leaders around the world face major natural and economic disasters that require them to find ways to rebuild both physical infrastructure and the local economy.

First published in 1968, this book explores the theme of geographical generalization, or model building.

This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations.

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan.

This book investigates the relationship between mining, mine closure and housing policy in post-apartheid South Africa, using concepts from new institutional economics and evolutionary governance theory.

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Across the world, ecosystems are for sale.

Across the world, ecosystems are for sale.

Small and mid-sized suburban towns house two-thirds of the world's population and current modes of planning for these municipalities are facing challenges of both philosophy and form.

Originally published in 1978.

This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey's personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in England, to explore what place and community mean in a particular context, and how different initiatives struggle to get a stake in the wider governance relations while maintaining their own focus and ways of working.

A presentation of the challenges of European rural landscape management, exploring alternatives that incorporate place-based approaches.

Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia: Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States examines the influence of neo-liberal ideologies on urban and regional policies and practices in several Asian Pacific nations.

Tracing the associations between artists, planners and engineers with and within the materials of our environment, this book introduces the relational theory of 'art worlding' as a way of coming to know our organic continuity.

Access to quality services and community infrastructure are vital parts of supporting sustainable and resilient rural and small town places.

Rapid and radical changes were taking place in the countryside.

Drawing on recent academic studies in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, this book is the first international text on homelessness in rural areas.

This book provides the first foundation of knowledge about the intellectual traditions, contemporary scope and future prospects for the interdisciplinary field of rural gerontology.

Traditionally, the public sector has been responsible for the provision of all public goods necessary to support sustainable urban development, including public infrastructure such as roads, parks, social facilities, climate mitigation and adaptation, and affordable housing.

This book evaluates the effectiveness of the Green Belt planning policy in England.

This edited book contains salient papers presented at the XII World Congress of Rural Sociology held in South Korea in 2008.

Rural Regeneration in the UK provides an accessible yet critical overview of rural regeneration policy and governance in the UK.

A key aspect of town planning, landscape planning and landscape architecture is to identify and then use the distinctive features and characteristics of space, place and landscape to achieve environmental quality.