Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England Healey Patsy
Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England Healey Patsy This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey's personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in…
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Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England Healey Patsy
This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey's personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in England, to explore what place and community mean in a particular context, and how different initiatives struggle to get a stake in the wider governance relations while maintaining their own focus and ways of working. Through the lens of Wooler and Glendale as a micro-society, the book centres on a community experiencing an economic and demographic transition. Throughout the book, Healey assesses the public value generated by community initiatives and the impact of such activity on wider governance dynamics.Healey explores the power which small communities are able to mobilise through self-organisation and grassroots activism.
It focuses on three initiatives developed and led by local people - a small community development trust, an informal