Rural areas worldwide are undergoing profound change creating considerable challenges and stress for its residents and on the ecosystems upon which they depend.

This book focuses on empirical experiences related to market development, and specifically new markets with structurally different characteristics than mainstre

For America’s rural and suburban areas, new challenges demand new solutions. Author Randall Arendt meets them in an entirely new edition of Rural by Design. W

Rapid urbanisation, inequalities in income and service levels within and between communities, and population and economic decline are challenging the viability