Meaning of rurban fringe | Babel Free

Definitions

An overlapping area between city and countryside which has some characteristics of each.

Examples

“There exists what has come to be called the "rurban fringe," an area occupied by tar paper shacks and stately estates, large commercial farms and one-acre part-time farms, golf courses and cemeteries, airports and obnoxious industries.”

“The rurban fringe conflict is between town and country.”

“They had produced a scheme which encompassed mixtures of each, resulting in Townscape, Rurban Fringe, Farmscape, Marginal Fringe and Wildscape categories which had been derived from the high detailed land use data.”

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