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Market towns roles,challenges and prospects

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: Oxon Routledge 2007Description: xiii, 183p. ill. 26cmISBN:
  • 9780415389624
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 711.52 $2 18
Partial contents:
The challenges of understanding market towns -- Characteristics, roles and policy: market town characteristics; exploring contemporary functional roles; policies for market towns -- Issues and challenges: transport and mobility in the English market town; ready or not, the ageing of the market towns' population; market towns, housing and social inclusion; capacity vs. need, exploring reginal differences in housing provision; market towns and rural employment; visiting the shops, rural service centre or visitor attraction? -- What prospects for market towns?: drivers for change in the case study towns; market towns, roles, challenges and prospects -- Appendices: a short history of market towns; a short guide to the English development planning system
Summary: Book explores the role of English market towns and seeks to offer some clarity with which to define what constitutes a market town. Offers analysis of over 200 market towns, with a detailed study of eleven of these to offer conclusions. Discusses a future role for market towns as centres for sustainability and seeks to underline gaps in planning law as it relates to market towns. Of interest to planning practitioners and students.
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The challenges of understanding market towns -- Characteristics, roles and policy: market town characteristics; exploring contemporary functional roles; policies for market towns -- Issues and challenges: transport and mobility in the English market town; ready or not, the ageing of the market towns' population; market towns, housing and social inclusion; capacity vs. need, exploring reginal differences in housing provision; market towns and rural employment; visiting the shops, rural service centre or visitor attraction? -- What prospects for market towns?: drivers for change in the case study towns; market towns, roles, challenges and prospects -- Appendices: a short history of market towns; a short guide to the English development planning system

Book explores the role of English market towns and seeks to offer some clarity with which to define what constitutes a market town. Offers analysis of over 200 market towns, with a detailed study of eleven of these to offer conclusions. Discusses a future role for market towns as centres for sustainability and seeks to underline gaps in planning law as it relates to market towns. Of interest to planning practitioners and students.