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Gregory M. Fulkerson offers a complete portrait of what communities are, how they work, and how they are embedded in urban-rural systems at regional, national, and global scales. After explaining the concept of urban-rural systems, Fulkerson walks through the central dynamics of environmental demography, political economy, culture, social interaction, the built environment, and community connections. His focus on urban-rural systems ensures that communities are understood as nodes within a network, overcoming the tendency to view them as self-contained. Each chapter in Community in Urban-Rural Systems: Theory, Planning, and Development offers a blend of classical and contemporary theories and conclude with relevant planning considerations. An additional chapter on community development provides strategies for translating planning considerations into action. The conclusion offers insights into long-term principles of community sustainability and justice.

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Gregory M. Fulkerson's new book does an admirable job in drawing from a range of classical and contemporary sources and multiple scholarly disciplines to provide a useful set of frameworks for thinking about rural people and places in an urbanizing world.--Kai A. Schafft, Pennsylvannia State University Fulkerson's work is always theoretically sound, and this book is no exception, but this entry into urban-rural scholarship makes practical sense as well. He advances an approach to strengthening communities--a task few social scientists have taken on--and he does so in a way that acknowledges the geographic, economic, cultural and political realities of people who live in these places. These applied contributions make the book invaluable for social scientists, regional planners, and anyone who seeks to be engaged in building stronger, sustainable communities. --Karen E. Hayden, Merrimack College

Fulkerson's work is always theoretically sound, and this book is no exception, but this entry into urban-rural scholarship makes practical sense as well. He advances an approach to strengthening communities--a task few social scientists have taken on--and he does so in a way that acknowledges the geographic, economic, cultural and political realities of people who live in these places. These applied contributions make the book invaluable for social scientists, regional planners, and anyone who seeks to be engaged in building stronger, sustainable communities. --Karen E. Hayden, Merrimack College

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Gregory Fulkerson is professor and chair of sociology at the State University of New York at Oneonta.

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