Rural planning and policy

Homes fit for Heroes looks at the pledge made 100 years ago by the Lloyd George government to build half a million 'homes fit for heroes' - the pledge which made council housing a major part of the housing system in the UK.

This book intends to initiate a fresh articulation of need-based infrastructure provisions in rural contexts.

An institutional analysis of environmental planning and management of the rural environment and of the delivery of ecosystem services.

With the environment, climate change, and global warming taking center stage in the national debate, the issues seem insurmountable and certainly unsolvable at the local level.

Housing in the European Countryside provides an overview of the housing pressures and policy challenges facing Europe, while highlighting critical differences.

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.

Small farms represent important components of food systems and rural areas, as sources of occupation and livelihood, factors of socio-economic diversity, cradles of grass-roots innovation and experimentation.

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.

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.

Land represents an important resource for the economic life of a majority of people in the world.

Rural Geographies provides a critical, contemporary and accessible introduction to rural change by using geographical ideas to understand current issues affecting the countryside.

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

Originally published in 1989, The Geography of Urban-Rural Interaction in Developing Countries addresses the nature and importance of the interaction between 'urban' and 'rural' areas within Third World national territories, providing much-needed comparative, cross-cultural, and cross-national material.

Recent state-led urbanization initiatives in China have drastically transformed Chinese rural society - closing the urban-rural divide as well as redistributing wealth and altering the flows of social mobility.

Contested Airport Land draws attention to the accelerating airport development in the Global South.

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.

Rural Accessibility in European Regions explores concepts, methodologies, and case studies dealing with accessibility in European rural areas, embracing cultural, socioeconomic, and governance aspects that play a key role for accessibility policies in rural and peripheral areas.

Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture: Methods, Actions, Tools addresses the initial encounters between landscape designer and landscape site, an encounter that determines the entire course of the design process.

Social Provision in Rural Wiltshire was first published in 1952.

The Tennessee Valley Authority was the largest single agency created under the auspices of the New Deal legislation.

Originally published in 1982, Time Resources, Society and Ecology examines and seeks to examine the time dimension in terms of the ecology, technology, social organization and spatial structure of the human habitat.

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

Originally published in 1991.

The ambition of the book is to investigate a possible transition in the markets for food in the Nordic countries.

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

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

The discourse around derelict, former industrial and military sites has grown in recent years.

During modernity metropolitan ruralities have been regarded as land reserves for urban expansion.

New urban forms characterizing contemporary metropolises reflect a certain continuity with the patterns of the past.

Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life offers arts-based solutions to the threats to democracies around the world, practices that can foster more just and equitable societies.

In recent decades, globalization has transformed rural societies and economies across the world.

The Routledge Handbook on Historic Urban Landscapes in the Asia-Pacific sheds light onto the balancing act of urban heritage management, focusing specifically on the Asia-Pacific regions in which this challenge is imminent and in need of effective solutions.

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

Planning law is one of the most fast moving legal areas, with major structural changes to the planning system occurring since 2014 .

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.

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

Housing problems have become increasingly complex in the Global South.

After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet's urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century.

Densification has been a central method of achieving smart, sustainable cities across the world.

Drawing from empirical analyses, case studies, and a synthesis of best practices, this book explores how innovation manifests itself in rural places and how it contributes to entrepreneurial development and resilience.