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Rawat Publications Rural Planning Problems by Cherry Gordon E
For too long planning has concentrated on the urban context, and indeed what attention has been given to the rural situation has too often been governed by urban attitudes and policies. The housing and employment problems of the rural poor are different from those in cities and require different approaches to their solution.Rural Planning Problems is a collection of specially commissioned essays which, in attempting to redress this imbalance in emphasis on urban planning, comprehensively reviews the range of contemporary rural problems and their inter-relationships.Rural planning is not just a question of protecting the countryside in visual and developmental terms, or of providing facilities for outdoor recreation – although these aims are of great importance. It is much more a question of recognizing areas of conflict in values and taking action to reconcile or otherwise meet that conflict. The chapters of this book have been written with this attitude very much in the minds of the authors.