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Metropolitan ruralities

During modernity metropolitan ruralities have been regarded as land reserves for urban expansion. However, there is a growing insight that there are limits to the urban expansion into rural areas. Signs of a new position are the awakened interest in the nature, the authentic and the simple way of li...

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Other Authors: Andersson, Kjell (Professor of social sciences and rural research), Sjo<U+0308>blom, Stefan., Granberg, Leo., Ehrstro<U+0308>m, Peter., Marsden, Terry.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2016.
Series:Research in rural sociology and development ; v. 23.
Subjects:
Social Science > Sociology > Rural.
Rural planning.
Rural communities.
Rural-urban relations.
Rural development.
City planning.
Urban policy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Kjell Andersson, Stefan Sjo<U+0308>blom, Leo Granberg, Peter Ehrstro<U+0308>m, Terry Marsden
  • Neither urban nor rural: urban growth, economic functions and the use of land in the Mediterranean fringe / Luca Salvati
  • The rural-urban dynamics and the Swedish-speaking Finns. Challenges and opportunities for a regionally based ethnic group / Kjell Andersson, Kenneth Nordberg, Erland Eklund
  • Long wave of rural research from combating poverty to sustaining ecosystems / Leo Granberg
  • Relations and areas of interaction between landowners in a peri-urban area / Ann-Sofie Richardt
  • Transformation and survival strategy - rural gentrification and social sustainability in gentrified metropolitan and urban ruralities, the case of Sundom, Vaasa, Finland / Peter Ehrstro<U+0308>m
  • Envisioning opportunities for agriculture in peri-urban areas / Elke Rogge
  • Programme- and project-based metropolitan governance and citizen participation: a case study from the Helsinki metropolitan area / Kanerva Kuokkanen
  • The prospects for bridging spatial and institutional divides within regions: rural-urban relationships in a projectified governance context / Stefan Sjo<U+0308>blom, Kjell Andersson
  • Regional spatial planning, government and governance as a recipe for sustainable development? / Andrea Frank, Terry Marsden
  • Exploring innovation and sustainability in the metropolitan rural areas of Budapest and Paris / Bernadett Csurgo<U+0301>, Imre Kova<U+0301>ch, Nicole Mathieu
  • Urban food strategies. Exploring definitions and diffusion of European cities' latest policy trend / Agnese Cretella
  • Conclusion / Kjell Andersson, Stefan Sjo<U+0308>blom, Leo Granberg, Peter Ehrstro<U+0308>m, Terry Marsden.

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