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Structures at the frige of the city
| Author: |
Leeming, Frank; Soussan, John |
| Date: |
1979 |
| Periodical: |
International Scocial Science Journal |
| Abstract: |
The fringe of the city, as the term is used here, may be defined quite easily. It is a zone of land on the periphery of a city which is experienceing a process of transformation from characteristically rural modes of production, social interaction and land use to characteristically urban ones, or which has experienced this process in the recent past. at any one time this fringe acts as the interface between the city and the surrounding rural areas. It posesses some characteristics typical of both rural and urban localities, and may possess others peculiar to itself. It is a zone of transition in both space and time, and we may regard these two elements as parallel and complimentary manifestations of the same thing. Defined in these terms, it is an identifiable zone, distinguishable from both city and country, with a heterogeneous character which is often in sharp contrast to the more homogeneous urban and rural areas with which it is associated. From this heterogeneity, frige areas derive much of their distictiveness; and at the same time, this heterogeneity arises from the transitional and dynamic nature of the fringe. |
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