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 big Rural
Rural Industrial Spaces
Democracy
and 
​what Next

big rural

With Lexington Press of Rowman & Littlefield in their Studies in Urban-Rural Dynamics series:

​Big Rural reconceptualizes the economic sectors we take for granted in the 21st Century United States, especially those in single sector rural regions. It analyzes these as large technical systems in order to reveal their developments as deliberate interventions that can be dissected, dismantled, and replaced.

Big Rural examines the historical making of the rural industrial space, or “big rural” and this space’s brittleness as a system, how this system breaks and under what duress, and how big rural may be dismantled.

Then, given hindsight, Big Rural enters into the remaking of this big rural space from various paths–policy, planning, practice, research.
Order here: 
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Rural-Industrial-Democracy-Urban-Rural/dp/1666930741​
and discounts on orders directly >>> https://Rowman.com/Lexington. (Use ​LXFANDF30 for a 30% discount).

Figures to accompany big rural text

A map of Central Appalachia with stickers that show where food hubs were happening in 20187.
A map of WV and VA that shows the three county area of the Pocahontas Coalfield.
A chart of the loss of population in Carroll County, VA and a gain in McDowell County, WV during the start of the Pocahontas Coalfield.
A chart of the relationships and stakeholders that support an energy sector.
A chart that shows the stakeholders and relationships in a rural industrial sector in the US.
A sample of the ads in the Two Virginias, a journal that promoted mining in the 1880s. The page has columns of classified ads.
A chart of the preferred educational skills by companies influencing national policy under the Obama Administration.
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