0 used to describe land in the countryside on the edge of a town or city, on which new housing, businesses, etc. are being built:
The rurban fringe is beyond the council estates of the outer city.
Between those "scapes" are the fringes—"rurban" fringe and marginal fringe.
The term "rurban"—inelegant though it may be—refers to the land surrounding the areas which he rightly described as of economic importance.
Indeed, she has coined a new phrase—the rurban fringes.
The consequence of the derelict inner city has been the invasion of the green field site by urban dwellers and urban companies alike, thus turning farmscape into the "rurban" fringe.
That affects the edges of the town and country leading to what she has described as the "rurban" fringe with the population migrating into green field sites.
I think that by a combination of the old words rural and urban one ought to coin the word "rurban" because, after all, planning affects not merely buildings and land.
All rural settlements and many small towns (some of which are dubbed rurban settlements) are incorporated in regional councils.
