Neil Powe

Market Towns (eBook, ePUB)

Roles, challenges and prospects

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Original and insightful, this volume, giving in-depth consideration to the key issues affecting the future of market towns, provides readers with a framework for evaluating policy initiatives and progress in market towns.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136772382
• Artikelnr.: 47896160

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1 The challenges of understanding market towns 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 and mobility in the English market town 6 Ready or
not: the ageing of the market towns' population 7 Market towns, housing and
social inclusion 8 Capacity vs. need: exploring regional differences in
housing provision in market towns 9 Market towns and rural employment 10
Visiting the shops: rural service centre or visitor attraction? Part 3 What
prospects for market towns? 11 Drivers for change in the case study towns
12 Market towns: roles, challenges and prospects