Cottage Country in Transition: A Social Geography of Change and Contention in the Rural-Recreational Countryside

摘要: Using the Rideau Lakes region of eastern Ontario and Cultus Lake area southwestern British Columbia as case studies, Greg Halseth examines ways in which economic, political, social power affect community change. He focuses on specific issues, such residential change, land use planning, property taxation, organization. Moving beyond empirical research, sets changes occurring these communities within a broader intellectual context "community power" "commodification rural idyll." pays particular attention to how general processes pressures work themselves out places. Written an accessible style, Cottage Country Transition will be great interest geographers, planners, sociologists, researchers well residents cottage owners.