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I was lucky enough to find Wendell Berry early on in university (through reading Barbara Kingsolver) who has wrote a lot on this problem. In particular is an essay called 'Conservationist and Agrarian.' I think a lot of work could be done applying Berry's ideas of good work/farming/life to an urban/city setting and something along the line of Jane Jacobs to ideas about planning in the country/rural setting. One particular incidence of this problem is Canada's Federal Government. As much as a sustainable "wilderness" would/should benefit country folk more than city folk it seems that only the Conservatives speak effectively to non-urban Canadians. In particular the Liberals, I think, need to do a lot better at this because as much as I would like there to be more options and more party representation in the government, in the near future at least, our Prime Minister is either going to be a Conservative or a Liberal. I would prefer a Liberal Prime Minister myself, ideally with a minority government including a good number of NDP, Green and Bloc MPs, but it isn't going to happen unless Liberal MPs are elected in country ridings by rural Canadians.