Overview
- Original archival research to identify the realities of policy-making
- Looks 'behind the scenes' to reveal a wealth of original empirical insights
- Identifies urban bias as a key feature of housing improvement
Part of the book series: Local and Urban Governance (LUG)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book shows how governance regimes before the 1970s suppressed rural prospects of housing improvement and created conditions for middle-class capture. Using original archival sources to reveal the intricacies of local and national policy processes, weak rural housing performances are shown to owe more to national governance regimes than local under-performance. Looking `behind the scenes' at policy processes highlights neglected principles in national governance, and shows how investigating rural housing is fundamental to understanding the national scene. With original insights and a new analytical perspective, this volume offers evidence and conclusions that challenge mainstream assumptions in public policy, housing, rural studies and planning.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Keith Hoggart is Emeritus Professor of Geography at King’s College London. His research focuses on links between housing, migration and social change in rural areas, with policy-making and the governance of local socio-economic change as key interests. He is the author/co-author of eight books/research monographs and has edited/co-edited seven books. He graduated from the University of Salford, was a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Toronto, and completed his PhD at King’s College London. He has been Fulbright Scholar at the University of Maryland and Temple University, and Visiting Researcher at the University of California Berkeley. He was head of King’s Department of Geography and its School of Social Science and Public Policy, and was a King’s Vice-Principal from 2005-2013.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Contrived Countryside
Book Subtitle: The Governance of Rural Housing in England 1900–74
Authors: Keith Hoggart
Series Title: Local and Urban Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62651-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62650-1Published: 27 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62653-2Published: 29 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62651-8Published: 26 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-5449
Series E-ISSN: 2524-5457
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 555
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Governance and Government, Common Property and Land Law, History of Britain and Ireland