Rural Planning Books

New and Published Books

1. Local Food and Community Development

   Edited by Gary Paul Green, Rhonda Phillips

   Series: Community Development – Current Issues Series

   Food has become an essential component in community development practice. Whether in reference to building a local or regional food system or addressing food insecurity, food has become a focus in community development approaches in many localities. Farmers markets, community gardens,...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness

   Edited by Paul Cloke, Paul Milbourne

   Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

   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. Consisting of fifteen specially commissioned chapters, International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness provides...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Socio-Economic Models in Geography (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Richard Chorley, Peter Haggett

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1968, this book explores the theme of geographical generalization, or model building. It is composed of seven of the chapters from the original Models in Geography, published in 1967. The first chapter broadly outlines this theme and examines the nature and function of...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. Lasting Value

   Open Space Planning and Preservation Successes

   By Rick Pruetz

   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. But rather than rail against overdevelopment, this book celebrates...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by APA Planners Press
5. Social-Environmental Planning

   The Design Interface Between Everyforest and Everycity

   By Chris Maser

   Series: Social Environmental Sustainability

   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. Written by Chris Maser, international consultant on forest ecology, sustainable forestry practices, and sustainable...

   Published September 21st 2009 by CRC Press
6. Introduction to Rural Planning

   By Nick Gallent, Meri Juntti, Sue Kidd, Dave Shaw

   Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

   Providing an overview of rural (spatial) planning for students on planning, geography and related programmes, this book charts the major patterns and processes of rural change affecting the British countryside, its landscape, its communities and its economies in the twentieth century. The authors...

   Published January 9th 2008 by Routledge
7. Renewable Energy in the Countryside

   2nd Edition

   By Peter Prag

   Climate Change is high on the political agenda and the UK Government is committed to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. One of the main means of doing so has been by encouraging the production of energy from renewable sources. In 2005, when the first edition of Renewable Energy in the...

   Published November 30th 2006 by Estates Gazette
8. Planning on the Edge

   By Nick Gallent, Johan Andersson, Marco Bianconi

   More than a tenth of the land mass of the UK comprises 'urban fringe': the countryside around towns that has been called 'planning's last frontier'. One of the key challenges facing spatial planners is the land-use management of this area, regarded by many as fit only for locating sewage works,...

   Published June 22nd 2006 by Routledge
9. Housing in the European Countryside

   Rural Pressure and Policy in Western Europe

   Edited by Nick Gallent, Mark Shucksmith, Mark Tewdwr-Jones

   Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

   Housing in the European Countryside provides an overview of the housing pressures and policy challenges facing Europe, while highlighting critical differences. By drawing on contemporary research work of leading authors in the fields of housing studies, rural geography and planning, the book ...

   Published December 18th 2002 by Routledge
10. Countryside Planning

    The First Half Century, 2nd Edition

    By Andrew Gilg

    Published December 18th 1996 by Routledge