Study Notes
Characteristics of the rural-urban fringe
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Last updated 31 Jul 2018
What is the rural-urban fringe? Quite simply it’s the transition zone where urban and rural areas meet, mix and sometimes clash.
It's a manmade version of the "edge effect", which in the natural world is the juxtaposition of two contrasting environments or ecosystems.
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