Books, Nonfiction, Urban Planning & Development, Rural Planning

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Ken Wilkinson
The Community in Rural America (Classic studies in rural sociology)
by Dog-Eared Publications (Subsidiary: Social Ecology Press) (Paperback)

Ken Wilkinson’s classic study of cummunity in rural America is first a synthesis of the dominant conceptual approaches to the study of community including a comprehensive review of the literature on each conceptual approach. Second, the book represents a thorough discussion of the critical varaibles or measures in the study of community in contempory rural America.

Wes Jackson
Becoming Native To This Place (Blazer Lectures)
by University Press of Kentucky (Hardcover)

Samuel N. Stokes, A. Elizabeth Watson
Saving America's Countryside: A Guide to Rural Conservation. For The National Trust for Historic Preservation
by The Johns Hopkins University Press (Hardcover)

A new edition of the book that received the Historic Preservation Book Prize and the American Society for Landscape Architects' Honor AwardSince publication of the first edition of Saving America's Countryside in 1989, the fight to save America's rural resources has met with much success. Approaches considered experimental just a decade ago--greenways and heritage areas, for example--are now widespread. Yet at the same time, such disquieting developments as continuing suburban sprawl, the weakening of federal laws, and the so-called property rights movement all suggest that work remains to be done. Saving America's Countryside was the first and is still the only comprehensive, step-by-step guide to protecting the natural, historic, scenic, and agricultural resources of a rural community. The authors show how to organize a conservation effort, inventory available resources, pass effective new laws, set up land trusts, take advantage of federal programs, and change public ...

Norman A Chance
The InÌupiat and Arctic Alaska: An ethnography of development (Case studies in cultural anthropology)
by Thomson Custom Publishing (Paperback)

Randall Arendt, Elizabeth A. Brabec, Vt.) Environmental Law Foundation (Montpelier, Randall G. Arendt
Rural by Design: Maintaining Small Town Character
by Planners Press American Planning Association (Hardcover)

Deborah Bowers, Tom Daniels
Holding Our Ground: Protecting America's Farms And Farmland
by Island Press (Paperback)

Farmers, who own or rent most of the private land in America, hold the key not only to the nation's food supply, but also to managing community growth, maintaining an attractive landscape, and protecting water and wildlife resources.While the issue of protecting farmland and open space is not new, the intensity of the challenge has increased. Farmers are harder pressed to make a living, and rural and suburban communities are struggling to accommodate increasing populations and the development that comes with them. Holding Our Ground can help landowners and communities devise and implement effective strategies for protecting farmland. The book: discusses the reasons for protecting farmland and how to make those reasons widely known and understood describes the business of farming, federal government farm programs, and the role of land in farmers's decisions analyzes federal, state, and local farmland protection efforts and techniques explores a variety of land protection options ...

Stan Burkey
People First: A Guide to Self-Reliant Participatory Rural Development
by St. Martin's Press (Hardcover)

Conscious of the frequent co-option of the idea of participation by official development agencies, and of the other pitfalls that participatory development can run into, the author provides a hardheaded and practical education about the role of change agents; their recruitment, training and support; how to get started; working with groups; handling relations with government officials and local power holders; and a full range of other relevant issues.

Frederic O. Sargent, Paul Lusk, Jose Rivera, Maria Varela
Rural Environmental Planning for Sustainable Communities
by Island Press (Hardcover)

An explanation of the concept of Rural Environmental Planning (REP) along with case studies that show how to apply REP to specific issues such as preserving agricultural lands, planning river and lake basins, and preserving historical sites.

Peter R. Decker
Old Fences, New Neighbors
by University of Arizona Press (Hardcover)

The residents of Ridgway, Colorado, who once numbered only a few hundred, now watch ski-toting tourists head for the Rockies and the new "gentleman ranchers" buy more and more land in the area. Once an outsider himself, the author takes a hard look at the pros and cons of change in the American West.

Charles Bartsch
Utilities and industries: New partnerships for rural development (Best practice series)
by Aspen Institute, State Policy Program (Unknown Binding)

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