"Energizing" Rural Space: The Representation of Countryside Culture as an Economic Development Strategy

Bascom, Johnathan

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“…It also seems reasonable that exurban areas will want to protect their rural identity. Bascom () notes one way this may happen, describing how the rural identity shifted in Branson, Missouri from a production orientation to a consumption orientation. In response to economic challenges, the community shifted its resource focus from a traditional agriculture basis to a commodification of its rural setting to appeal to tourists.…”

Section: The Rural Identity As a Resource And A Constraintmentioning

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“…However, the potential wealth associated with development often comes at the cost of rural identity (Johnson, ). Development may shift land from a typically rural production orientation to a consumption or residential orientation (Bascom, ). Rather than rural areas being the hinterlands that provide resources to the city, they become refuges for city dwellers to reconnect with their agrarian roots, or spaces to live in large homes that may not be available or affordable closer in.…”

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The rural identity and the encroaching city: Governance, policy and development in Northern Virginia's Wine Country

2019

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In exurban areas, there are commonly issues and tensions associated with development and rural life. We assess how two counties located approximately one hour west of Washington, DC manage these tensions. Although both have enabled development, they have done so in different ways and neither has simply succumbed to exurban development as a given. Utilizing stakeholder interviews and document analysis, we note the different policy approaches that the two counties have taken and contrast them with the more common imagery of areas that fully acquiesce to suburban style development. Our findings suggest that tensions between the pressures of development and the persistent appeal of the rural identity occupy much time and attention in these two counties. Both counties have adopted observable policy changes driven by development pressures in recent years, underscoring a policy landscape that is in flux and the modern tension between the commercial economy of modernity, and the rural identity that is retained from the past. We observe that rural governance is largely about land, while urban governance is largely about people. As these two cases suggest, exurban governance has to be about both issues and this tension may lead to governance that is inherently unstable.

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Section: The Rural Identity As a Resource And A Constraintmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The rural identity and the encroaching city: Governance, policy and development in Northern Virginia's Wine Country

2019

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“…With the technology driven intensification of communications, urban and rural places and their images are often regarded as commodities and less dependent from specific place-based features and boundaries. Powerful symbolic and ideological significance constitutes places of consumption, their authentic elements and cultures, they are becoming associated "less with belonging to a particular place" and "more with opportunities and attractiveness of places" (Marsden et al, 1993, p. 9;Bascom, 2001). The complex geographical space, "causal relationships of physical proximity" is substituted with "single metaphorical representation" (Dematteis, 2001, p. 120).…”

Section: Understanding Urban -Rural Interactions: From Structures To mentioning

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Urban–Rural Interactions in Latvian Changing Policy and Practice Context

Kūle

2013

European Planning Studies

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This article aims at a better comprehension of urban-rural interactions as a spatial concept and its utilization for spatial and regional policies. Based on literature review and on interviews with planners and experts, the article explores how the concept of urban-rural interactions is defined, characterized and structured. The understanding of urban and rural, how they are connected provides a basis for capturing complexities and development of urban-rural interactions. The study, reviews urban-rural policies and practises in Latvia. Contemporary built-up areas and lifestyles are influenced by imprints of past urban-rural interactions. Aspects of contextuality, cross-sectorality and informality have to be taken into consideration when urban-rural interactions are applied to the policy field. The article introduces a typology to capture both the diversity and particularity of places in terms of urban-rural connectivity. An insight is given how the current Latvian local government territorial structure can contribute to building target-oriented urban-rural partnerships.

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“…Barthel‐Bouchier (2001) develops the cultural argument at the base of such a model recapturing the efforts of the Amanites to reinvent their identity for market purposes. Aptly called a theme‐park, the Amana is one example of different strategies for place promotion based on culture, tradition, heritage, and small town identity that since the 1990s is changing the conventional notion of rurality in the USA and Europe (Ward and Gold 1994; Engler 1994; Blake 1999; Frenkel and Walton 2000; Bascom 2001; Bres and Davis 2001; Paradis 2002; Phillips 2002). When functioning, such a model brings together the best of both worlds: an ability to take advantage of globalisation without necessarily abandoning local identity.…”

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Market and State‐supported Sustainability: A Tale of Two Rural Communities in Iowa and Italy

Trabalzi

Rosa

2011

Sociologia Ruralis

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The aim of the article is to compare, using surveys, interviews and participant observation, long-term development strategies in two rural communities, one in Iowa (Amana Colonies) and the other in southern Italy (Val Comino). The Amana Colonies have chosen a market model whereas the Val Comino uses a model supported with funds from the European Community. Both strategies prioritise local ability to co-ordinate actions across geographical and institutional scales. The findings suggest that the efficiency of the two strategies is wearing out and their long-term sustainability is in question. In the case of southern Italy, this is because powerful members in local institutions operate on conventions of clientelism and corporativism; in the Amanas it is because shareholders who live in the community are interested in preserving the identity of the territory whereas those who do not are interested in the corporation's dividends.

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"Energizing" Rural Space: The Representation of Countryside Culture as an Economic Development Strategy

Cited by 14 publications

References 11 publications

The rural identity and the encroaching city: Governance, policy and development in Northern Virginia's Wine Country

The rural identity and the encroaching city: Governance, policy and development in Northern Virginia's Wine Country

Urban–Rural Interactions in Latvian Changing Policy and Practice Context

Market and State‐supported Sustainability: A Tale of Two Rural Communities in Iowa and Italy

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