Building in arcadia - Ruth Reed

Building in Arcadia: The case forwell-designed rural development is areasoned, impassioned and ultimately practical book identifying keybarriers to rural development, and how planning applicants (whether householders,developers and landowners), and most particularly their agents who make theapplications - architects, landscape architects or planners - can address, andovercome, them.

Focusing on the positive aesthetic role buildings can play in the landscape, and proposing sensitive development, Building in Arcadiaalso explores the essential economic, social and environmental case for more building in the countryside to make the countryside more viable. In so doing, it will actively engage, challenge and provoke debate - as well as offering practical ways forward.