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Town and Country (Paperback)

by Anthony Barnett (Editor), Roger Scruton (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (7 Oct 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099276984
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099276982
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,040,561 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

In the 1940s, HJ Massingham, documentor of rural England, described the concept of "picturesque" as a "giant worm that had trailed its slime" across the countryside. In the late 1990s the debate was alive as ever with the Countryside Alliance (lead mainly by the pro-hunting lobby) complaining that city dwellers' ignorance was destroying rural traditions.

In fact, hunting is a tiny part of the conflicts troubling the countryside. Town And Country brings together leading academics, environmentalists, historians, anthropologists, urban planners, farmers, journalists and politicians to discuss the dilemmas in depth. The 28 essays question many ingrained ideas. The book debunks the image of the farm family, discusses heritage culture and tackles a multitude of issues such as car culture, organic farming, rural housing shortages, animal rights, self-sufficiency, commuter villages, conservation, new towns and lack of public transport. It wonders how long Britain will be able to retain its unique landscape of higgledy-piggledy, misshapen fields before the land is bulldozed into the angular, characterless, industrial-agriculture landscape of other European countries.

Town And Country explores countryside issues from all angles, analysing the views of everyone from The Soil Association to The Movement for Middle England. Rather than just highlighting the problems, it suggests solutions. It also points out that though urbanites may have romantic, unrealistic notions of quaint country life, the rural population's view of unfriendly, polluted, greedy city life can be just as stereotyped. --Sarah Champion



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Members of the Town and Country Forum - formed in 1995 - explore the many-faceted problem of the relationship between urban and rural communities, with the aim of providing both a focus for debate and a reference point for argument.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking, 5 May 2006
By A. Johnston (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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Having lived in both Town and Country and regarding myself as understanding both, this is a broad, well researched, collection of essays from a variety of thinkers.

Any townies (or recent converts to country life) might get a shock as they read a few uncomfortable truths about preservation / heritage, agriculture, transport etc.

Thought provoking and highly recommended
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