Ruralism, The Future of Villages and Small Towns in an Urbanizing World

摘要

The term urbanism is well-known and in common use, so it was perhaps inevitable that the term ruralism would be coined. Vanessa Carlow is not the first to use it, and there still seems to be some fluidity in the way that the term is used. Paula Cocozza, for example, used it in 2012 to describe the taking over of city spaces by what she described the 'pastoral idyll'. In this book, Carlow has drawn together a series of essays from different disciplines with varying foci, but with a common concern for sustainabili-ty. It has a northern European emphasis, and with a final glance at the global perspective, which includes examples from China, Columbia and Oman.