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Change is inevitable in all communities: they both grow and
decline. Planning is a means by which we have sought to manage this
change. It has not always succeeded in providing the types of
settlements and environments which many residents and others want,
either because it is operating with the wrong policies or because
it is failing to ensure that the right policies are effectively
implemented. These failings have opened planning to criticism by a
dominant neoliberal orthodoxy which shapes an increasingly
difficult environment in which planning has to operate. Planning
for Small Town Change builds on an underexploited selection of
international research and the authors' English case studies to
consider the efficacy of planning for change. Drawing on insightful
small town experiences, three themes emerge: understanding and
conceptualising change; appreciating the potential within place;
and the mechanisms for planning and delivery. The research draws on
many examples of how key actors have made a significant difference
to specific places and provides important insights into how the
planning process can be better matched to the long-term and complex
challenges faced. Whilst small town experiences are often
neglected, they are found to be particularly insightful in
understanding the potential roles of local communities and the
importance of place quality when planning for change.
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. Through a detailed analysis of the
characteristics of over 200 towns and in-depth studies of eleven
towns in different parts of England, the authors identify and
explore a number of key roles for market towns. Such as: retirement
towns commuter towns employment centres service centres tourist
towns. Setting the results in the context of past and current
policy, they consider in more detail some of the critical issues,
including increased personal mobility, aging populations, housing
growth and affordability, employment and retail competitiveness.
Drawing on this detailed case study material, a final section
explores the future role of market towns as sustainable communities
and how they might best assure their futures. Addressing issues
which have not yet been covered in contemporary planning
literature, this comprehensive volume provides a wide-ranging
discussion that will appeal to those involved at all levels of
practice related to market towns as well as to academics and
students working in both rural and urban geography and planning.
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. Through a detailed analysis of the
characteristics of over 200 towns and in-depth studies of eleven
towns in different parts of England, the authors identify and
explore a number of key roles for market towns. Such as: retirement
towns commuter towns employment centres service centres tourist
towns. Setting the results in the context of past and current
policy, they consider in more detail some of the critical issues,
including increased personal mobility, aging populations, housing
growth and affordability, employment and retail competitiveness.
Drawing on this detailed case study material, a final section
explores the future role of market towns as sustainable communities
and how they might best assure their futures. Addressing issues
which have not yet been covered in contemporary planning
literature, this comprehensive volume provides a wide-ranging
discussion that will appeal to those involved at all levels of
practice related to market towns as well as to academics and
students working in both rural and urban geography and planning.
Change is inevitable in all communities: they both grow and
decline. Planning is a means by which we have sought to manage this
change. It has not always succeeded in providing the types of
settlements and environments which many residents and others want,
either because it is operating with the wrong policies or because
it is failing to ensure that the right policies are effectively
implemented. These failings have opened planning to criticism by a
dominant neoliberal orthodoxy which shapes an increasingly
difficult environment in which planning has to operate. Planning
for Small Town Change builds on an underexploited selection of
international research and the authors' English case studies to
consider the efficacy of planning for change. Drawing on insightful
small town experiences, three themes emerge: understanding and
conceptualising change; appreciating the potential within place;
and the mechanisms for planning and delivery. The research draws on
many examples of how key actors have made a significant difference
to specific places and provides important insights into how the
planning process can be better matched to the long-term and complex
challenges faced. Whilst small town experiences are often
neglected, they are found to be particularly insightful in
understanding the potential roles of local communities and the
importance of place quality when planning for change.
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