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rurban, a.|ˈrɜːbən|
[f. rural a. + urban a.]
Combining the characteristics of country and town; designating an area sharing rural and urban ways of life.
1918C. J. Galpin Rural Life iii. 64 The word rurban is formed by blending rural into urban. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Feb. 86/2 The science of towns..shows itself a science with technical terms, such as ‘conurbation’ and ‘rurban’. 1939O. E. Baker in Agric. in Mod. Life i. ix. 165 Should..rural and urban merge in what has been called a ‘rurban’ civilization the cultural consequences would also be profound. 1945H. H. Balk in Econ. Geogr. XXI. 108/2 A rurban area has very definite advantages over a strictly agricultural or rural area from the farmer's point of view. 1961New Yorker 28 Oct. 43/3 In an article about the spread of highways and housing developments from cities to former farmland, we came upon a reference to ‘the rurban explosion’. 1981Country Life 2 July 7 To draw attention to his unsatisfactory rural-urban development, the Second Land Utilisation Survey has given it a distinctive name: rurban fringe.
Hence ˈrurbanism, the properties of town and country life regarded as interacting and inseparable; ˈrurbanist, an advocate of rurbanism; rurbaniˈzation the susceptibility of town life to rural influences.
1918C. J. Galpin Rural Life iii. 64 The idea of rurbanism is that..the open country is an element in the clustered town, and the town is a factor of the land, and the civilization, culture, and development of rural people are to be found in conjunction with town and small city, and not apart. Ibid., The rurbanist boldly attempts to adjust anew the malrelations of the farm to the cluster. 1931N. Carpenter Sociol. City Life xiv. 453 Urbanized societies are those in which the cultural effects of ‘rurbanization’ are to be found. 1943C. L. White Regional Geogr. Anglo-America xiii. 403 Rather than have three fourths to four fifths of our population reside in great cities, O. E. Baker recommends rurbanism. 1959Economist 30 May 850/1 Millions of city dwellers have swarmed into the countryside to set a new and increasingly widespread pattern of life which is sometimes called ‘rurbanisation’, sometimes ‘urbiculture’. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 10 July 6/4 He calls the young back-to-the-landers the ‘vanguard of a new ruralism’. Another way to look at it is the ‘rurbanization’ of America, he says. |