Rural category: 418 books
by Paul Cloke
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book, first published in 1983, provided the first thorough and informative introduction to the theory, practice and politics of rural settlement planning. It surveys the conceptual and ideological leanings of those who have developed, implemented and revised rural settlement practice, and gives...
Mixed Harvest
The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. According to Hal S. Barron, country people from New England to North Dakota negotiated the rise of large-scale organizational society and consumer...
The Rural Modern
Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Discussions of China’s early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there. As a result, the communist peasant revolution appears as a decisive historical break. Kate Merkel-Hess corrects that misconception...
Reinventing Rural
New Realities in an Urbanizing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Reinventing Rural is a collection of original research papers that examine the ways in which rural people and places are changing in the context of an urbanizing world. This includes exploring the role of the environment, the economy, and related issues such as tourism. While traditionally relying...
Social Integration of Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Current Status, Determinants and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book focuses on rural-urban migrants in China. They are one of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in the country but are essential to the country's industrialization and urbanization. Integration of these migrants into urban societies is an urgent issue facing Chinese policy makers....
Contemporary Rural Geographies
Land, property and resources in Britain: Essays in honour of Richard Munton
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
This book provides a cohesive set of research statements on critical related issues in British rural geography, as well as echoing the priorities identified by an influential figure in British rural geography, Richard Munton. This book demonstrates that the rural world needs to be seen in a far wider...
Policies and Plans for Rural People (Routledge Revivals)
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This edited collection, first published in 1988, was the first title to bring international perspectives into the field of rural planning. Using a comparative approach and a broad range of case studies, including Britain, Scandinavia, the U.S.S.R. and New Zealand, the authors review the major problems...
Rural Voices
Language, Identity, and Social Change across Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world. Challenging stereotypical views of rural backwardness and urban progress, the contributors reveal how language is a key mechanism for...
Big House on the Prairie
Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
For the past fifty years, America has been extraordinarily busy building prisons. Since 1970 we have tripled the total number of facilities, adding more than 1,200 new prisons to the landscape. This building boom has taken place across the country but is largely concentrated in rural southern towns.
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by Gagandeo Prasad Yadava
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Rural life is the principal pivot around which whole Indian social life revolves. India is a land of agriculture. Its history, customs and traditions, complex social organization and unity in diversity etc. can be understood by the study of rural life. The disproportionate dependence on agriculture...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
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 comparative material...
by Terry Marsden
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
During modernity metropolitan ruralities have been regarded as land reserves for urban expansion. However, there is a growing insight that there are limits to the urban expansion into rural areas. Signs of a new position are the awakened interest in the nature, the authentic and the simple way of...
Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe
Exploring Inter-Relationships Between Rural Policies, Farming, Environment, Demographics, Regional Economies and Quality of Life Using System Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
This book presents the methodology and results of a three-year, eleven-country science-to-policy research project – Toward a Policy Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development – undertaken between 2005 and 2008 and financed under the European Union's Sixth Framework program. ...
Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line
Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The nostalgic vision of a rural Midwest populated by independent family farmers hides the reality that rural wage labor has been integral to the region's development, says Deborah Fink. Focusing on the porkpacking industry in Iowa, Fink investigates the experience of the rural working class and highlights...