rurban fringe

English

Noun

rurban fringe (plural rurban fringes)

1. An overlapping area between city and countryside which has some characteristics of each.
   • 1946, Walter Firey, “Ecological Considerations in Planning for Rurban Fringes”, in American Sociological Review, volume 11, number 4, page 413:

     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.

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

     The rurban fringe conflict is between town and country.

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

     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.