Adjective

(en adjective)

Pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas.

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Adjective

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Of or pertaining to a location which has both urban and rural characteristics.

*1926 , John M. Gillette, "Community Concepts," Social Forces , vol. 4, no. 4, p. 686,

*:The rurban community offers greater possibilities of social stratification than does the open country community.

*1946', Walter Firey, "Ecological Considerations in Planning for '''Rurban Fringes," ''American Sociological Review , vol. 11, no. 4, p. 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.

*2002 , Andre Wink, "From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean: Medieval History in Geographic Perspective," Comparative Studies in Society and History , vol. 44, no. 3, p. 428,

*:In the lands of the Indian Ocean ‘agrarian cities’ and ‘rurban ’ settlements of all sizes were the general rule throughout the medieval period.