Nick Gallent, Menelaos Gkatzios, Mark Scott, and Andrew Purves just published an edited book in English entitled Postcapitalist Countrysides – From commoning to community wealth building. All the authors teach and research urban planning in the UK, and therefore, the approach is planning from that perspective and not necessarily from an economic planning one. However, one chapter written by Yousaf Nishat-Botero and Matt Thompson and entitled The land question and postcapitalist countrysides: towards a town-country synthesis deal with economic planning directly. Also, since the book is about postcapitalism, it does focus on economic issues. Postcapitalist Countrysides is published at UCL Press and is available in open access.
Here’s the book’s presentation:
Postcapitalist Countrysides explores the tensions that arise from the established conventions of economic production and private accumulation, as they affect life, wealth and work in rural areas. Its premise is that capitalism, as we experience it today, is incapable of solving key societal challenges – centred on social justice and sustainable livelihoods. By rethinking land, capital and labour relationships, postcapitalism offers glimpses of alternative modes of socio-economic organisation, achievable through local pre-figurative actions today and scalable through structural supports in the future. The glimpses of hopeful futures offered in this collection focus on rural places, communities and economies.
To download the book: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/postcapitalist-countrysides/