'Rural Change and Planning.... is to be recommended warmly to students who need a clear critical guide to a century of countryside change.' - Urban Studies
'...essential reading for academics and practitioners trying to make sense, and act on behalf, of rural communities.' - Planning Practice and Research
'Cherry and Rogers have harvested and distilled an enormous amount of material and presented it in a logical, lucid and highly readable form - a fitting epitaph for Gordon Cherry, and one that I am certain will be read and re-read by many well into the millenium.' - Planning Practice and Research
'a sure bet for student reading lists...skilled use of examples...concise and lucid analysis' - Planning Perspectives
'...especially useful for students of geography, town planning, environmental studies and landscape planning' - Landscape Design
'Not the least refreshing aspect of this book is that it restores one's somewhat battered faith in the Enlightenment ideal' - Town and Country Planning
'It is a supremely clearly written account by two experienced writers and researchers effortlessly on top of the task in hand' - Town & Country Planning