Rural Places and Planning: Stories from the Global Countryside

Description

This book provides a compact analysis for students and early-career practitioners of the critical connections between place capitals and the broader practices of planning, seeded within rural communities. It introduces the breadth of the discipline, presenting examples of what planning means and what it can achieve in different rural places. 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. International in scope, 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.

"Accompanied by inspiring case studies, this book compellingly explains which values guide community engagement and what role rural planners may play in realising a good countryside using place-based capitals." Bettina Bock, Wageningen University "A radical new take on rural place that escapes traditional national silos in planning research to present a global perspective, emphasising interconnection and relationality. A fresh and stimulating read." Michael Woods, Aberystwyth University "This book offers crucial insights into the study of rural planning, with a particular emphasis on the interconnectedness of the global countryside. It moves beyond the Anglophone world and provides a fresh perspective for both Global South and Global North rural researchers, and for practitioners pursuing the 'good countryside'." Chi-Mao Wang, National Taiwan University