Rural Places and Planning
Stories from the Global Countryside
By Menelaos Gkartzios, Nick Gallent and Mark Scott
Published
Mar 8, 2022Page count
184 pagesISBN
978-1447356370Dimensions
240 x 172 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Mar 8, 2022Page count
184 pagesISBN
978-1447356387Dimensions
Imprint
Policy PressPublished
Mar 8, 2022Page count
184 pagesISBN
978-1447356387Dimensions
Imprint
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Rural Places and Planning provides a compact analysis for students and early-career practitioners of the critical connections between place capitals and the broader ideas and practices of planning, seeded within rural communities. It looks across twelve international cases, examining the values that guide the pursuit of the ‘good countryside’.
The book presents rural planning – rooted in imagination and reflecting key values – as being embedded in the life of particular places, dealing with critical challenges across housing, services, economy, natural systems, climate action and community wellbeing in ways that are integrated and recognise broader place-making needs. It introduces the breadth of the discipline, presenting examples of what planning means and what it can achieve in different rural places.
Menelaos Gkartzios is Reader in Planning and Rural Development at Newcastle University.
Nick Gallent is Professor of Housing and Planning at University College London.
Mark Scott is Professor of Planning at University College Dublin.
1. Introduction
2. The built rural
3. The economic rural
4. The land-based rural
5. The social and cultural rural
6. Conclusions