Dennis Deery

[Renewing the Countryside](http://renewingthecountryside.org/)

A great series of books detailing stories of rural development and preservation.

(tags: [community](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/community) [rural](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/rural))
[Rural-Urban Interdependence](http://www.brookings.edu/projects/blueprint/~/media/Files/Projects/blueprint/blueprint%20docs/1102_ruralurban_dabson.pdf)

Why metropolitan and rural America need each other - a paper from the Brookings Institution.

(tags: [rural](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/rural))