Synopses & Reviews
For the past century, governments have been compelled, time and again, to return to the search for solutions to the housing and economic challenges posed by a restructuring countryside. The rural housing question is an analysis of the complexity of housing and development tensions in the rural areas of England, Wales and Scotland. It analyses a range of topics: from attitudes to rural development, economic change, land use, planning and counter-urbanisation; through retirement and ageing, leisure consumption, lifestyle shifts and homelessness; to public and private house building, private and public renting and community initiatives. Across this spectrum of concerns, it attempts to isolate the fundamental tensions that give the rural housing question an intractable quality. The book is aimed at policy makers, researchers, students and anyone with an interest in the future of the British countryside.
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The authors build on their already extensive repertoire of insights on British rural housing in this volume, providing a comprehensive assessment of policy issues and conundrums for key rural housing questions. Professor Keith Hoggart, King's College, London
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Rural housing is the key issue in rural Britain. This authoritative and stimulating book provides a clear and comprehensive review of research and policy. I recommend it to anyone with an interest in the future of our countryside. Professor Mark Shucksmith OBE, Newcastle University
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“A valuable contribution to our understanding of community action and public participation in planning that pushes boundaries in its reframing of participation as an integral part of planning and governance. Compelling reading for scholars, educators, and reflective practitioners.”
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“A rich view, neither benevolent nor romantic, of actual communities in different parts of the world struggling to take control of their lives and homes, and a close investigation of their torn connections to the planning system.”
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Neighbourhood planning offers a critical analysis of community-based planning activity in England, framed within a broader view of collaborative rationality and its limits. From the recent experience of drawing up parish plans, and attempts to connect these to formal policy frameworks, it identifies lessons for future planning at the neighbourhood scale. It is not a manual on community planning practice, nor does it provide a formula for producing parish or neighbourhood plans. But in the context of the latest 'localism' agenda in England it, first, examines the potential contribution of neighbourhood planning to building a 'collaborative democracy' and, second, asks how much movement towards genuine local partnership, and consensus around development decisions, can be achieved through the rescaling of 'statutory' planning as opposed to expending greater effort locally on building stronger relationships, and generating trust, between 'people and planning'
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Neighbourhood Planning offers a critical analysis of community-based planning activity in England, framed within a broader view of collaborative rationality and its limits.
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Neighbourhood Planning offers a critical analysis of community-based planning in England. A lively examination of planning practices, it sketches the value, rationale, and limits of collaboration within this endeavor, arguing that planning power should shift from the public realm to local communities. The authors question the extent to which movement toward genuine local partnershipsandmdash; and the consensus required for themandmdash;can be achieved through rescaling, as opposed to greater efforts spent building relationships and generating trust in the communities affected. In doing so, they highlight the potential contribution such planning practices can make to the development of a collaborative democracy.
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Taking an integrated approach, this book provides an analysis of the complexity of housing and development tensions in the rural areas of England, Wales and Scotland.
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With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater desire to take control of their own lives and neighborhoods. Government, for its part, is keen to embrace the projects and planning undertaken at this level, attempting to regularize it as a means of reconnecting to citizens and localizing democracy.
This unique book analyzes the contexts, drivers, and outcomes of community action and planning in a selection of case studies in the global north: from emergent neighborhood planning in England to the community-based housing movement in New York, and from active citizenship in the Dutch "new towns" to associative action in Marseille. It will be a valuable resource for academic researchers and students of social policy, planning, and community development.
About the Author
Nick Gallent is professor of housing and planning and head of the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London. He is coauthor of The Rural Housing Question: Community and Planning in Britains Countrysides and Neighbourhood Planning: Communities, Networks and Governance, both published by Policy Press. Daniela Ciaffi is professor of urban sociology in the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Palermo.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Framing Community-Based Planning
Communities, Community Action and Planning
~ Nick Gallent & Daniela Ciaffi
Communities, Networks and Social Capital
~ Yvonne Rydin
Time, Belonging and Development: A Challenge for Participation and Research
~ Peter Matthews
Part 2: Contexts and Drivers for Community Action
From Residents to Citizens: the Emergence of Neighbourhood Movements in Spain
~ Gemma Vilà
Community Action in Australian Farming and Fishing Communities
~ Sue Kilpatrick, Karen Willis and Sophie Lewis
Associative Action in Urban Planning: Cases Studies from Marseille, France
~ Maha Messaoudène, Daniel Pinson & Mustapha Berra
Communities, land-ownership, housing and planning: reflections from the Scottish experience
~ Madhu Satsangi
Part 3: Planning at the Community Scale
The Fourth Way of Active Citizenship: Case Studies from the Netherlands
~ Ton van der Pennen & Hanneke Schreuders
Small-town Comprehensive Planning in California: Medial pathways to community-based participation
~ Hemalata Dandekar and Kelly Main
Engaging neighbourhoods: experiences of transactive planning with communities in England
~ Gavin Parker
Active communities of interest and the political process in Italy
~ Daniela Ciaffi
New York Citys community-based housing movement: Achievements and prospects
~ Laura Wolf-Powers
Community-Based Planning in Freiburg, Germany: The Case of Vauban
~ Iqbal Hamiduddin and Wulf Daseking
Part 4: Scales, Influence and Integration
The Scaling of Planning: Administrative Levels and Neighbourhood Mobilization as Obstacles to Planning Consensus
~ Pierre Filion
Flexible Local Planning: Linking Community Initiative with Municipal Planning in Volda, Norway
~ Jørgen Amdam
Connecting to the Citizenry: Support Groups in Community Planning in England
~ Nick Gallent
Reflections on Community Action and Planning
~ Daniela Ciaffi & Nick Gallent