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Rurbanize vs Rurban - What's the difference?

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Rurban is a related term of rurbanize.


Rurbanize is often a misspelling of rurban.


Rurbanize has no English definition.

As an adjective rurban is

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

rurbanize

Not English

Rurbanize has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'rurbanize':

rurbanite

rurban

English

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.
  • References

    *" rurban" at OneLook® Dictionary Search . *Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.