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Caring for Place - Community Development in Rural England (Paperback)
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Caring for Place - Community Development in Rural England (Paperback)
Series: RTPI Library Series
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This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey's
personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in
England, to explore what place and community mean in a particular
context, and how different initiatives struggle to get a stake in
the wider governance relations while maintaining their own focus
and ways of working. Throughout the book, Healey assesses the
public value generated by community initiatives and the impact of
such activity on wider governance dynamics. Healey explores the
power which small communities are able to mobilise through
self-organisation and grassroots activism. Through the lens of
Wooler and Glendale as a micro-society, the book centres on a
community experiencing an economic and demographic transition. It
focuses on three initiatives developed and led by local people - a
small community development trust, an informal attentionmobilising
network, and a Neighbourhood Plan project which uses an opportunity
provided within the formal planning system. It examines how, in
such civil society activism, people came together to promote local
development in a place and community neglected by the dominant
political economy. The book details the power and force of
community initiative and its potential for transforming both the
future possibilities for the place and community itself, as well as
wider governance relations. Overall, it seeks to enrich academic
and policy discussion about how the relations between formal
government and civil society energy could evolve in more productive
and progressive directions.
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