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A Contrived CountrysideGovernance and Rural Transformation: An Investigative Approach

A Contrived Countryside: Governance and Rural Transformation: An Investigative Approach [Outlining the initial prompts for undertaking this research, this chapter examines arguments that working-class housing in the English countryside has been restricted by landowner employers and service-class in-migrants who seek an imagined bucolic rurality. These drivers of restraint on the housing options of those not able to afford home ownership are deemed insufficient to capture the magnitude of rural housing deficiencies. Given their limited resources, pathways to housing improvement for the low-paid depended on public policy interventions. Explaining why the book explores housing conditions across eight decades, with a focus on England, attention is drawn to insufficient knowledge about key contributions to the rural housing drama; not simply rural council actions but also construction firm and national government involvement. Offering an account of the analytical framework utilised in the volume, the chapter draws out the rationale for selecting seven rural districts for primary attention, while indicating that conclusions are based on insight from a variety of national and local information sources. These ensure equal attention is devoted to decision criteria and policy action nationally and locally.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Contrived CountrysideGovernance and Rural Transformation: An Investigative Approach

Part of the Local and Urban Governance Book Series
Hoggart, Keith
Springer Journals — Mar 27, 2021
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-62650-1
Pages
1 –36
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-62651-8_1
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Abstract

[Outlining the initial prompts for undertaking this research, this chapter examines arguments that working-class housing in the English countryside has been restricted by landowner employers and service-class in-migrants who seek an imagined bucolic rurality. These drivers of restraint on the housing options of those not able to afford home ownership are deemed insufficient to capture the magnitude of rural housing deficiencies. Given their limited resources, pathways to housing improvement for the low-paid depended on public policy interventions. Explaining why the book explores housing conditions across eight decades, with a focus on England, attention is drawn to insufficient knowledge about key contributions to the rural housing drama; not simply rural council actions but also construction firm and national government involvement. Offering an account of the analytical framework utilised in the volume, the chapter draws out the rationale for selecting seven rural districts for primary attention, while indicating that conclusions are based on insight from a variety of national and local information sources. These ensure equal attention is devoted to decision criteria and policy action nationally and locally.]

Published: Mar 27, 2021

Keywords: Landowner vested interests; Service-class in-migrants; Local–central government relations; Study areas; Data sources

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