Rural Planning

Throughout history, humans have lived primarily in rural landscapes. In 2008, for the first time, the global population became predominantly urban....

Rural development researchers and practitioners have argued in recent years that investing in a broad range of assets is a critical component of lo...

Local regeneration, and action on local issues, is fundamental to the sustainability of local communities. This is especially the case in the UK, w...

Reform has long been a consensus in China, but after decades of rapid growth, there still remain numerous intractable barriers and institutional co...

Our rural communities are home to some of the most hard working and fiercely self-reliant Americans in the United States. Strong and secure rural c...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

European rural landscapes as we experience them today are the result of ongoing processes and interactions between nature and society. These are ch...

Academic publisher, Pion, has an outstanding reputation for publishing high quality journals in the fields of geography, physics and experimental p...

For almost 15 years, the architectural couple Pascal Fournier and Sandra Maccagnan has been working in the Unterwallis region to produce a remarkab...

For more than 20 years, Swiss architect Martino Pedrozzi has been working on the partial reconstruction of derelict dwellings on alpine pasture...

Rebirding takes the long view of Britain's wildlife decline, from the early taming of our landscape and its long-lost elephants and rhinos, to fenl...

In rural China, an informal wave of building catalysed by economic and social developments has rendered some villages unrecognisable. This buil...

Building in Arcadia: The case for well-designed rural development is a reasoned, impassioned and ultimately practical book identifying key barriers...

How is it that rural poverty in southern Tanzania appears both easy to explain and yet also mystifying? Why is it that 'development' is such a touc...

Rural tourism is a form of tourism that is based on natural resources and requires intertwining with rural areas. It can be easily integrated with ...

He was an Austrian immigrant; she came from Tasmania. He grew up beside the Carinthian Alps; she climbed mountains when few women dared. Their hone...