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  • Advancing Rural Development in China

    Between State Power and Community Action

    This book is about the practice of rural development in contemporary China. It evolves the concept of 'neo-exogenous development' to explain how the power of the state links to community action via local party structures, in pursuit of both state-building and rural revitalisation.Through case studies, the book examines how central government investments are channelled through area-based programmes ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Rural Planning Futures

    Principles, Policy and Practice in the UK and Ireland

    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Rural Planning Futures charts the critical societal challenges that are reshaping rural places across the UK and Ireland. The book evaluates current planning processes and explores the prospects for an enhanced, cross-sectoral and holistic future practice that mediates rural change towards more resilient and sustainable outcomes. Rural places and planning have, for too long, been viewed as ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Introduction to Rural Planning

    Economies, Communities and Landscapes

    Series series Natural and Built Environment Series
    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.The second edition provides an examination of the composite nature of ‘rural planning’, which combines land-use and spatial planning elements with community action, countryside management ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Rural Places and Planning

    Stories from the Global Countryside

    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 ... Read more

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  • Whose Housing Crisis?

    Assets and Homes in a Changing Economy

    by Nick Gallent ...
    At the root of the housing crisis is the problematic relationship that individuals and economies share with residential property. Housing’s social purpose, as home, is too often relegated behind its economic function, as asset, able to offer a hedge against weakening pensions or source of investment and equity release for individuals, or guarantee rising public revenues, sustain consumer ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning

    The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning provides a critical account and state of the art review of rural planning in the early years of the twenty-first century.Looking across different international experiences – from Europe, North America and Australasia to the transition and emerging economies, including BRIC and former communist states – it aims to develop new conceptual propositions and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Politics, Planning and Housing Supply in Australia, England and Hong Kong

    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    In recent years many nations have asked why not enough housing is being built or, when it is built, why it isn't of the highest quality or in the best, most sustainable, locations. Politics, Planning and Housing Supply in Australia, England and Hong Kong examines the politics and planning of new homes in three very different settings, but with shared political traditions: in Australia, in England ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Second Homes

    European Perspectives and UK Policies

    Second homes are once again a source of political and social contention in rural areas. The British government's decision to reduce Council Tax discounts on second homes in England in April 2004 has caused wide debate in local communities, local authorities, and the media. The debate has not only focused on the vexed Council Tax issue, but on wider rural housing concerns. Questions have been ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Rural Second Homes in Europe

    Examining Housing Supply and Planning Control

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000: Improved communication links between urban and rural areas and an increase in property prices in urban regions have made commuting an attractive option for European town and city dwellers eager to 'escape' urban living. This has lead to a proliferation of second homes in certain remote or deep rural areas, and this trend is compounding problems that are ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Planning, Markets and Rural Housing

    Edited by Nick Gallent ...
    This book analyses the key forces affecting the affordability of rural homes in Britain and the changing shape of housing markets. It takes as its starting point, demographic trends impacting upon rural communities and upon market dynamics. From this point, it explores consequent patterns of housing affordability, examining changing opportunities in the rental and sale markets, at different ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Community Action and Planning

    Contexts, Drivers and Outcomes

    Edited by Nick Gallent, Daniela Ciaffi ...
    With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater appetite to take control of their own lives and neighbourhoods. Government, for its part, is keen to embrace the projects and the planning undertaken at this level, attempting to regularise it and use it as a means of reconnecting to citizens and localising democracy.This unique book ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • New Money in Rural Areas

    Land Investment in Europe and Its Place Impacts

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the flow of investment into rural land assets in Europe, particularly farmland, woodland and wineries, but extending also to leisure uses such as golf courses and theme parks. It explores the characteristics of investors in rural land and their motivations before undertaking an analysis of the place impacts of investment, viewing ‘new money’ as a potential development ... Read more

    $49.49 USD