Terms vs Rurban - What's the difference?
terms | rurban |
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.
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is .As an adjective rurban is
of or pertaining to a location which has both urban and rural characteristics.rurban
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*"rurban" at OneLook® Dictionary Search . *Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
