1st Edition
Market Towns Roles, challenges and prospects
1. Introduction Neil Powe and Trevor Hart Part 1: Characteristics, Roles and Policy 2. Market Town Characteristics 3. Exploring Contemporary Functional Roles 4. Policies for Market Towns Part 2: Issues and Challenges 5. Transport Geoff Vigar 6. Ready or Not: The Ageing of Market Towns' Population Rose Gilroy, Liz Brooks and Timothy Shaw 7. Market Towns, Housing and Regeneration Stuart Cameron and Mark Shucksmith 8. Implications of Housing Allocations for Market Towns Susannah Gunn and Neil Powe 9. Market Towns and Rural Employment Trevor Hart and Neil Powe 10. Visiting the Shops: Rural Service Centre or Visitor Attraction? Neil Powe and Trevor Hart Part 3: What Prospects for Market Towns? 11. Drivers for Change in the Case Study Towns 12. Market Towns: Roles, Challenges and Prospects
Biography
Neil Powe is a lecturer in planning at the University of Newcastle. His main research interests include non-market environmental valuation and rural planning. Market towns research has provided the focus of his rural planning research and he has co-authored a number of journal articles on the subject. He has published a book on environmental valuation. Trevor Hart is visiting research fellow in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle. He has a number of years’ experience of practice in planning and economic development in rural areas and has recently been engaged in a number of evaluation studies involving the impact of enterprise policy in deprived communities, graduate recruitment in small businesses and the impact of social enterprise. Tim Shaw is head of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle. His research has covered various aspects of regional planning and he has many years’ experience dealing with issues of rural planning. He has co-authored journal articles on market towns and is currently editing a special issue on green belts for the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.
