Defining the Rural-Urban Fringe

Pryor, Robin J.

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“…Pryor (1968) credits first use of the term “fringe” to T. Lynn Smith in 1937 (although Shyrock and Siegal, 1980, note that Smith's usage is akin to Galpin's even earlier term “rurban”). In 1958, Kurtz and Eicher (1958) arrived at the following definition of the rural‐urban fringe as a:…”

Section: Understanding the Rural‐urban Fringementioning

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Between the Country and the Concrete: Rediscovering the Rural–Urban Fringe

Sharp

Clark

2008

City & Community

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Substantial U.S. population growth in relatively rural areas adjacent to large urban areas is sparking renewed interest in the rural‐urban fringe. This research identifies some of the roots of the rural‐urban fringe concept and reviews recent scholarly interest in the related exurban concept. Analysis of primary and secondary data is conducted to examine the fringe in relation to both urban/suburban areas and rural areas of Ohio, seeking to determine the extent to which the fringe is similar to or dissimilar from the suburbs or more rural areas. Comparisons are made across a number of ecological, occupational, and sociocultural attributes. Differences between incorporated (cities and villages) and unincorporated (township) areas are also considered. Findings support the notion of the fringe being distinct from the suburbs, with more modest differences compared to more rural places. Practical implications of this research are discussed as are future research needs for further understanding an increasingly important settlement area of the United States.

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Section: Understanding the Rural‐urban Fringementioning

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Between the Country and the Concrete: Rediscovering the Rural–Urban Fringe

Sharp

Clark

2008

City & Community

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“…Az urbanizáció révél nemcsak a települések közötti, de általában a város és vidék közötti határ is -fizikailag é; társadalmi értelemben egyaránt -megsz űnik éles választóvonalnak lenni. Eredményesebb le het ezért a nemzetközi szakirodalomban elterjedt azon elméletek alkalmazása, melyek az urba nizáltság foka szerint város-falu kontinuumról (urban-rural continuum), vagy város-vidé) találkozási zónáról (urban-rural fringe) beszélnek (Pahl 1966;Pryor 1968). Ez utóbbitanyák szempontjából is fontos -olyan átmeneti övezet, ahol a vegyes területfelhasználás kü lönböző foka jellemző (pl.…”

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Kérdőjelek és hiányjelek a tanyakutatásban

Timár¹

1990

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“…A particularly high proportion of former countryside dwellers are involved in this process (Balogh & Csapó, 2013), because they usually want to return to their rural lifestyle (Szirmai, 2011). These formerly incorporated villages and inhabited outskirts can also be considered as part of the rural-urban fringe and can be identified as conflict zones (Pócsi, 2009;Pryor, 1968).…”

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In the shadow of the city: Demographic processes and emerging conflicts in the rural-urban fringe of the Hungarian agglomerations

Vasárus¹,

Bajmócy²,

Lennert³

2018

Geographica Pannonica

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Because of the special settlement system in Hungary a municipality can be divided into three parts, the central inner area (core city), other inner areas (incorporated settlements) and outskirts. Because of this system and special settlement network, the process of suburbanisation in Hungary has some unique characteristics. In this paper we examined the spatial structure and social properties of the rural-urban fringe of four Hungarian cities, with emphasise on the other inner areas and the outskirts.The outskirts are mostly scattered or interim habitations within the administrative limits of a city or village but these are usually separated from the main built-up areas and almost all of them characterised remote-rural-like infrastructure and way of life. This spatial structure resulted in the phenomenon of the suburbanisation within city limits. Our research aims to examine how it influenced local society and land use pattern in the rural parts of the agglomerations. The used method was based on a questionnaire involving 1800 households and census of outskirts plots in the sample area of a middle-sized city in West Hungary.During this process, residents tend to change their living conditions to a more rural one without leaving the municipality, thus areas of former villages and outskirts attracted 55.1% of suburban movement outside of Budapest Agglomeration since 1990. Most of the residents came from the city to rural milieu and their main motivations were low utility costs, gardening opportunities and slow lifestyle. A significant part of them is especially looking for remote-rural-like environment and community, however they want to stay close to the city. A high proportion of migrants have low-income and disadvantages. The repeated expansion of modest houses resulted in a chaotic townscape that is creating conflicts within neighbourhoods. Even villages, incorporated villages and outskirts, which are at the same distance from the city centre, show significant differences in rurality, suburban motivations and society. The rural-urban fringe transformed into a highly complex spatial and social structure during post-socialist transformation, therefore the existing urban and spatial development methods of Hungarian Administration are not able to handle this phenomenon.

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Defining the Rural-Urban Fringe

Cited by 96 publications

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Between the Country and the Concrete: Rediscovering the Rural–Urban Fringe

Between the Country and the Concrete: Rediscovering the Rural–Urban Fringe

Kérdőjelek és hiányjelek a tanyakutatásban

In the shadow of the city: Demographic processes and emerging conflicts in the rural-urban fringe of the Hungarian agglomerations

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