Contested countryside : the rural urban fringe in North America / edited by Owen J. Furuseth, Mark B. Lapping
- Published
- Aldershot ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [1999]
- Copyright Date
- ©1999
- Physical Description
- xi, 291 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Furuseth, Owen J., 1949- and Lapping, Mark B.
- Series
- Contents
- Introduction and overview / Mark B. Lapping, Owen J. Furuseth -- Unsettled views about the fringe : rural-urban or urban-rural frontiers? / Ivonne Audirac -- Contesting the countryside and changing social composition in the greater Toronto area / Gerald Walker -- Agricultural land preservation in North America : a review and survey of expert opinion / Kenneth B. Beesley -- Purchase of development rights program, the Northeast experience / Donn A. Derr, Pritam S. Dhillon -- Innovative approaches to farmland preservation / Adesoji O. Adelaja, Brian J. Schilling -- The exurban battleground / Arthur C. Nelson -- Disentangling policy, governance, and local contention over change in Vancouver's rural urban fringe / Greg Halseth -- Planning for environmental responsibility and equity : a critical appraisal of rural/urban relations in the New York City watershed / Max J. Pfeffer, Linda P. Wagenet -- Is urban agriculture sustainable in Hartford, Connecticut? / Rachel A. Nugent -- Anyone home? Building conservationists into the agrarian countryside / Robert McCallister -- Preserving open space on the rural urban fringe : the role of land trusts / Marci S. Whittaker.
- Summary
- "All across North America the rural urban fringe has emerged as the quintessential land use battleground. The fringe is the 'contested countryside' wherein different interests confront one another over the future of the landscape. Whether the fringe will remain largely devoted to agriculture and dispersed small towns, the new 'edge cities' of the globalizing economy, the sprawl so typical of North American suburban life, or some new land use configuration, the fact remains that it is in the rural/urban fringe that the North American landscape will find its definition in the century ahead. This collection of original essays by planners, geographers, economists, sociologists and activists provides a rich overview as well as in-depth case studies of the issues and places in contest on the fringe."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 1859726623
9781859726624 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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