Participatory Rural Planning signposts what can work well and what should work differently in regard to participatory planning. The book takes rural Ireland as an empirical laboratory and explores the Irish experience at different spatial scales, from the village, through to the locality, the sub regional and the regional levels.

Michael Murray is Reader at the Institute of Spatial and Environmental Planning, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

Part I Theoretical and Policy Contexts; Chapter 1 Planning and Citizen Part Icipation; Chapter 2 Planning Perspectives on Rural Ireland; Part II Part Icipatory Planning in Action; Chapter 3 Part Icipatory Planning for Countryside Housing Development; Chapter 4 Part Icipatory Village Planning; Chapter 5 A Citizens' Panel Approach to Part Icipatory Planning and Rural Development; Part III Prospects for Part Icipatory Planning; Chapter 6 The Potential and Limits of Part Icipatory Rural Planning;