rurban fringe

plural rurban fringes

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

   The rurban fringe conflict is between town and country.

   1976, Alice Coleman, “Is Planning Really Necessary?”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 142, number 3, page 420

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   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.

   1946, Walter Firey, “Ecological Considerations in Planning for Rurban Fringes”, in American Sociological Review, volume 11, number 4, page 413

   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.

   1989, David Rhind, “Report on the Meeting of 24 April 1989”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 155, number 3, page 429