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The rural-urban fringe

The rural-urban fringe. Accessible rural settlements. The rural-urban continuum. This is the idea that between the truly rural and the truly urban are many ‘shades of grey’.

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The rural-urban fringe

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  1. The rural-urban fringe Accessible rural settlements

  2. The rural-urban continuum • This is the idea that between the truly rural and the truly urban are many ‘shades of grey’. • From the single isolated farm all the way to the large city, there are no clear boundaries between hamlets, villages, towns and cities. • This change is seen as a continuum. • Is this a valid argument?

  3. The rural-urban fringe • This is the transitional zone at the edge of an urban area which has characteristics of both rural & urban environments • Settlements are often dormitory or commuter settlements with suburbanisation a common process. • Land uses reflect the mixture of the two environments • Some cities may protect the rural nature of this zone by establishing a green belt. • See case study of Surrey at this link: http://www.geocases.co.uk/sample/urban2.htm

  4. How the UKs rural-urban fringe has changed over time

  5. What are the characteristics of the rural-urban fringe? • Use the map of Watford to identify the land uses typical of the rural-urban fringe & continuum • What are the likely social, economic & environmental impacts of the land uses here? • Is there any evidence of potential conflicts? • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8159497.stm

  6. Issues in the rural-urban fringe.

  7. Chorleywood

  8. What are the local villages like? • Property types & prices? • http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/Chorleywood.html • Social issues? • http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1461335/Frown-youre-in-Chorleywood.html • http://www.ukcrimestats.com/Neighbourhood/Hertfordshire_Constabulary/Chorleywood_Croxley_Green_~_Sarratt • http://www.welovechorleywood.co.uk/area-guide/ • Growth? • http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/places/places-c/chorleywood/chorleywood.htm • http://statsuk.com/Towns/Chorleywood.html

  9. The Green Belthttp://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/oct/10/greenpoliticshttp://www.naturenet.net/status/greenbelt.htmlhttp://www.cpre.org.uk/campaigns/planning/green-belts • Jasper Gerrard, The Observer on green belt land and its value on 14/10/07... • "Increasingly, farmland is viewed as dead space waiting to be turned into something useful. We hear this in the call to develop green belt land, much of which we are told is 'nondescript agricultural land'.... Accept the utility premise to determine land use and you can kiss your countryside goodbye. Any development will always be judged more 'useful' than farm land.... Even if the green belt never sprouts another turnip it is still worth keeping because otherwise it will sprout concrete."

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