By Nick Gallent
More than a 10th of the land mass of the united kingdom contains 'urban fringe': the nation-state round cities that has been referred to as 'planning's final frontier'. one of many key demanding situations dealing with spatial planners is the land-use administration of this quarter, appeared by way of many as healthy just for finding sewage works, crucial carrier services and different un-neighbourly makes use of. even if, to others it's a dynamic zone the place more than a few city and rural makes use of collide.
Planning at the Edge fills an immense hole within the literature, interpreting intimately the demanding situations that making plans faces during this no-man’s land. It offers either difficulties and ideas, and builds a imaginative and prescient for the city fringe that's excited about maximising its strength and with bridging the actual and cultural rift among city and nation. Its findings are awarded in 3 sections:
- the city fringe and the rules underpinning its management
- sectoral demanding situations confronted on the city fringe (including trade, power, sport, farming, and housing)
- managing the city fringe extra successfully within the future.
Students, pros and researchers alike will enjoy the book's dependent method, whereas the worldwide and transferable nature of the foundations and concepts underpinning the examine will attract a global audience.
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At another level, we will demonstrate how the fringe has been made and how it is perceived and represented. In examining what the fringe is, and how it might be managed, we apply – albeit loosely – the concept of landscape multifunctionality. But a key, recurring, theme for this book is the legitimate purpose of planning at the edge: to realize development potential and orchestrate change, or to promote the qualities of the fringe in a perhaps more sensitive way. 2 The making of the English rural-urban fringe Introduction The rural-urban fringe is becoming a focus for planners and policy makers, who have suddenly turned their attention to this hitherto neglected landscape.
This second point is perhaps the most important. The structure of the second part of the book attempts to reflect what the fringe is and how it functions (therefore it shares multifunctionality’s broadest aims). Chapters are presented which look at the historic fringe (3), the aesthetic fringe (4), the economic fringe (5), the sociocultural fringe (6) and the ecological fringe (7). In each chapter, an attempt is made – where relevant – to reveal how the landscape of the fringe functions in terms of how different land uses come together either in a state of conflict, or beneficially.
Historical functionality’, or ‘an area for settlement and identity’ that offers a sense of sociocultural continuity; 5. ‘Aesthetic functionality’, with landscapes providing ‘an area for experiences’. According to the same authors, ‘the future management of landscape must include some kind of multifunctionality in its approach . . : 26). Landscape management should certainly avoid some of the practices identified by Ling et al. (2000) that have underpinned the regeneration of derelict industrial land.