Traditional Rural Settlements

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Traditional Rural Settlements

Traditional Rural Settlements written by John Hendry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Architecture and society categories.

The Rural Settlement As A Basic Element In The Regional Pattern Of Egypt

The Rural Settlement As A Basic Element In The Regional Pattern Of Egypt written by Abdel Halim El Rimaly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Regional planning categories.

Planned Development Of Rural Settlements

Planned Development Of Rural Settlements written by R. B. Mandal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Bihar (India) categories.

Study restricted to Bihar, India.

Architectural Elements Of Traditional Settlements

Architectural Elements Of Traditional Settlements written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Architecture, Domestic categories.

The Uses Of Tradition In Building Community Identities

The Uses Of Tradition In Building Community Identities written by Robert Mooney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with City planning categories.

Traditional Forms And Architectural Design

Traditional Forms And Architectural Design written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Architects categories.

The Changing American Countryside

The Changing American Countryside written by Emery N. Castle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Business & Economics categories.

The literature on rural America, to the extent that it exists, has largely been written by urban-based scholars perpetuating out-of-date notions and stereotypes or by those who see little difference between rural and agricultural concerns. As a result, the real rural America remains much misunderstood, neglected, or ignored by scholars and policymakers alike. In response, Emery Castle offers The Changing American Countryside, a volume that will forever change how we look at this important subject. Castle brings together the writings of eminent scholars from several disciplines and varying backgrounds to take a fresh and comprehensive look at the "forgotten hinterlands." These authors examine the role of non-metropolitan people and places in the economic life of our nation and cover such diverse issues as poverty, industry, the environment, education, family, social problems, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, government, public policy, and regional diversity The authors are especially effective in demonstrating why rural America is so much more than just agriculture. It is in fact highly diverse, complex, and interdependent with urban America and the international market place. Most major rural problems, they contend, simply cannot be effectively addressed in isolation from their urban and international connections. To do so is misguided and even hazardous, when one-fourth of our population and ninety-seven per cent of our land area is rural. Together these writings not only provide a new and more realistic view of rural life and public policy, but also suggest how the field of rural studies can greatly enrich our understanding of national life.

Material Culture

Material Culture written by Kenneth L. Ames and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.

Research In Rural Education

Research In Rural Education written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Education, Rural categories.

Ghost Settlement On The Prairie

Ghost Settlement On The Prairie written by Joseph V. Hickey and has been published by Rural America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.

Four miles southeast of the village of Matfield Green in Chase County, Kansas—the heart of the Flint Hills—lies the abandoned settlement of Thurman. At the turn of the century Thurman was a prosperous farming and ranching settlement with fifty-one households, a post office, two general stores, a blacksmith shop, five schools, and a church. Today, only the ruins of Thurman remain. Joseph Hickey uses Thurman to explore the settlement form of social organization, which—along with the village, hamlet, and small town—was a dominant feature of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American life. He traces Thurman's birth in 1874, its shallow rises and falls, and its demise in 1944. Akin to what William Least Heat-Moon did for Chase County in PrairyErth, Hicky provides a "deep map" for one post-office community and, consequently, tells us a great deal about America's rural past. Describing the shifting relationships between Thurmanites and their Matfield Green neighbors, Hickey details how social forces set in motion by the American ideal of individualism and the machinations of capitalist entrepreneurs produced a Darwinian struggle between Thurman stock raisers and Flint Hills "cattle barons" that ultimately doomed Thurman. Central to the story are the concept of "ordinary entrepreneurship" and the profoundly capitalist attitudes of the farmers who settled Thurman and thousands of other communities dotting the American landscape. Hickey's account of Thurman's social organization and disintegration provides a new perspective on what happened when the cattle drives from Texas and the Southwest shifted in the 1880s from the Kansas cowtowns to the Flint Hills. Moreover, he punctures numerous myths about the Flint Hills, including those that cattle dominated because the land is too rocky to farm or that Indians refused to farm because of traditional beliefs. Like many other small rural communities, Hickey argues, Thurman during its seventy-year history was actually several different settlements. A product of changing social conditions, each one resulted from shifting memberships and boundaries that reflected the efforts of local entrepreneurs to use country schools, churches, and other forms of "social capital" to gain advantages over their competitors. In the end, Thurman succumbed to the impact of agribusiness, which had the effect of transforming social capital from an asset into a liability. Ultimately, Hickey shows, the settlement's fate echoed the decline of rural community throughout America.