Rural planning and policy

Americans are committing 'country-cide', says Rick Pruetz, FAICP, converting farms into suburban yards and channeling streams that once provided flood control, water purification, habitats, and recreational opportunities.

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

Social Provision in Rural Wiltshire was first published in 1952.

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.

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

Mobilising Place Management makes an important contribution to the mobilities field by arguing for the need to rethink place management.

Introduction to Rural Planning: Economies, Communities and Landscapes provides a critical analysis of the key challenges facing rural places and the ways that public policy and community action shape rural spaces.

For many decades debates about the future of developed world agriculture policy have been dominated by a long political conflict between European/multifunctional policy regimes and the global trend towards trade liberalisation.

This book focuses on the transformation of rural places, peoples, and land endemic to the contemporary manifestations of globalization.

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

Feeding Britain while preparing for the ravages of climate change are two key issues - yet there's no strategy for managing and enhancing that most precious resource: our land.

Gentrifier opens up a new conversation about gentrification, one that goes beyond the statistics and the cliches, and examines different sides of a controversial, deeply personal issue.

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.

Introduction to Rural Planning: Economies, Communities and Landscapes provides a critical analysis of the key challenges facing rural places and the ways that public policy and community action shape rural spaces.

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.

Gentrifier opens up a new conversation about gentrification, one that goes beyond the statistics and the cliches, and examines different sides of a controversial, deeply personal issue.

For at least half a century since the emergence of Country Parks and Forest Parks, countryside services have provided leisure, tourism, conservation, restoration and regeneration across Britain.

First published in 1983, this book attempts to unify two bodies of theory which had become severely disjointed.

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.

This book deals with problems frequently encoun-tered by agencies, managers, and technicians who try to implement large-scale development projects.

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

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.

Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century surveys American geographers' current research in their specialty areas and tracks trends and innovations in the many subfields of geography.

This edited collection, first published in 1989, provides a detailed analysis of rural land-use policies on a country-specific basis.

Most of us have heard of green belts - but how much do we really know about them?

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

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

Rapid and radical changes were taking place in the countryside.

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

Housing is crucial to the quality of life and wellbeing for individuals and familes, but the availability of adequate or affordable housing also plays a vital role in community economic development.

In recent years northern development has increasingly become a controversial issue in Canadian federal politics: the ensuing confusion of economic arguments and political discussion demonstrates the disorderly and inaccurate thinking of most Canadians on the subject.

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

A unique title comparing rural policies and employment in the two most developed parts of the world - the EU and USA.

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.

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

There is a rich and extensive history of research into factors that encourage farmers to change their land management practices, or inhibit them from doing so.

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

Over 100 scientists, architects, journalists, artists and activists address creatively the unprecedented challenges facing an Urban Planet.

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

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

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

The need for a "e;new"e; book on Greek colonization arose to analyse this phenomenon as a long-term process in a wide geographic area.

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.

Architecture and Agriculture: A Rural Design Guide presents architectural guidelines for buildings designed and constructed in rural landscapes by emphasizing their connections with function, culture, climate, and place.

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

How do we create more economic opportunities in the low-income communities of the developing world?

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