Building in Arcadia: The case for
well-designed rural development is a
reasoned, impassioned and ultimately practical book identifying key
barriers to rural development, and how planning applicants (whether householders,
developers and landowners), and most particularly their agents who make the
applications – architects, landscape architects or planners – can address, and
overcome, them.



Focusing on the positive aesthetic role buildings can play in the landscape, and proposing sensitive development, Building in Arcadia also explores the essential economic, social and environmental case for more building in the countryside to make the countryside more viable. In so doing, it will actively engage, challenge and provoke debate – as well as offering practical ways forward.