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Market towns : roles, challenges and prospects / edited by Neil Powe, Trevor Hart and Tim Shaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Market towns--Great Britain.
- Market towns.
- Rural development--Great Britain.
- Rural development.
- Regional planning--Great Britain.
- Regional planning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 townsemployment centresservice centres tourist towns.Setting the results in the context of past and current policy, they consider in mo
- Contents:
- Introduction / Neil Powe and Trevor Hart
- Market town characteristics / Neil Powe and Trevor Hart
- Exploring contemporary functional roles / Neil Powe, Trevor Hart, and Timothy Shaw
- Policies for market towns / Trevor Hart
- Transport / Geoff Vigar
- Ready or not : the ageing of the market towns' population / Rose Gilroy, Liz Brooks, and Timothy Shaw
- Market towns, housing, and regeneration / Stuart Cameron and Mark Shucksmith
- Capacity vs. need : exploring regional differences in housing provision in market towns / Susannah Gunn and Neil Powe
- Market towns and rural employment / Trevor Hart and Neil Powe
- Visiting the shops : rural service centre or visitor attraction? / Neil Powe and Trevor Hart
- Drivers for change in the case study towns / Trevor Hart, Neil Powe, and Timothy Shaw
- Market towns : roles, challenges, and prospects / Trevor Hart and Neil Powe
- Appendix 1: A short history of market towns / Neil Powe and Trevor Hart
- Appendix 2: A short guide to the English development planning system / Trevor Hart.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-77238-3
- 0-429-23747-2
- 0-415-54111-5
- 0-203-08944-8
- 0-203-82347-8
- 1-136-77239-1
- 9780429237478
- OCLC:
- 852755913
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