Hidding, M., B. Needham & J. Wisserhof, 2000, Discourses of town and country, in: Landscape and Urban Planning, 48,
- Author : Hidding, M., B. Needham & J. Wisserhof
- Year : 2000
- Journal/Series : Landscape and Urban Planning
- Volume Number (CONSECUTIVE: Counting all Volumes of this Journal ever published) : 48
- Pages : 121-130
- Abstract in English : The has arisen a great variety in the way we think about the relationship between town and country and in how those ideas are put into practical policy. The old certainties of the isolated town in a country setting have disappeared. Urban and rural worlds are getting ever more interwoven, physically, financially, functionally and culturally. An overview is given of the diversity of views that are currently circulating in discussions about spatial policy for town and country. It is argued that the different views are grounded in alternative discourses of town and country. This discourse perspective on town and country planning is explained. Five discourses of town and country are described in detail
- Comments/Notes : KEYWORDS: landscape planning, town, rural landscape, policy. [In this paper, a discourse on town and country in understood as a more or less consistent complex of ideas about (aspects of) the spatial organisation of and spatial policy for town and country. A discourse is being constructed and reconstructed in interaction between researches, planners, designers, policy makers, and interest groups etc.]