Market towns roles,challenges and prospects
Powe, Neil
Market towns roles,challenges and prospects - Oxon Routledge 2007 - xiii, 183p. ill. 26cm.
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.
Audience
9780415389624
England and Wales--1543-
711.52 $2 18
Market towns roles,challenges and prospects - Oxon Routledge 2007 - xiii, 183p. ill. 26cm.
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.
Audience
9780415389624
England and Wales--1543-
711.52 $2 18