Peri-urbanisation
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Peri-urbanisation relates to the processes of scattered and dispersive urban growth that create hybrid landscapes of fragmented and mixed urban and rural characteristics. Such areas may be referred to
Mountain valleys of industrialised countries (e.g. Inn valley) are often periurbanised.
The periurbanised Swiss Limmat valley.
Hospital in a peri-urban area in Gijón.
Exurb
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An exurb, sometimes called and/or associated with a semi-rural area or subrural area, is an urbanized area outside the typically denser inner suburban areas of a city, located at the edge of a metropo
Peri-urbanisation
…woodlands and hedgerows with the scattered urban facilities. "Peri-urbanisation" is also sometimes used to fill the gap between suburbanisation and exurbanisation, and thus relates moreover to the movement of people in space. In this case, it implies the expansion of functional rural-urban linkages such as by…
Exurban-style density along the Delaware–Maryland–Pennsylvania border, part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area