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  2. Rural area - Wikipedia

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    Often, rural regions have experienced rural poverty, poverty greater than urban or suburban economic regions due to lack of access to economic activities, and lack of investments in key infrastructure such as education. Rural development has traditionally centered on the exploitation of land-intensive natural resources such as agriculture and ...

  3. Exurb - Wikipedia

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    Exurbs can be defined in terms of population density across the extended urban area, for example "the urban core (old urban areas including Siming and Huli, where the population density is greater than 51 persons per ha), the suburban zone (old urban and new urban transitional zones including Haicang and Jimei, where the population density is ...

  4. Suburbanization - Wikipedia

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    A suburban land use pattern in the United States (Colorado Springs, Colorado), showing a mix of residential streets and cul-de-sacs intersected by a four-lane road. Suburbanization (American English), also spelled suburbanisation (British English), is a population shift from historic core cities or rural areas into suburbs.

  5. Rural economics - Wikipedia

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    Often, rural regions have experienced rural poverty, poverty greater than urban or suburban economic regions due to lack of access to economic activities, and lack of investments in key infrastructure such as education. Rural development has traditionally centered on the exploitation of land-intensive natural resources such as agriculture and ...

  6. Urban–rural political divide - Wikipedia

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    Urbanrural conflict in the American South has a complicated and diverse history, with numerous factors contributing to tensions between the two populations. [27] One of the main causes of this tension is the economic divide that has arisen between urban and rural areas.

  7. Suburb - Wikipedia

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    The English word is derived from the Old French subburbe, which is in turn derived from the Latin suburbium, formed from sub (meaning "under" or "below") and urbs ("city"). "). The first recorded use of the term in English according to the Oxford English Dictionary [7] appears in Middle English c. 1350 in the manuscript of the Midlands Prose Psalter, [8] in which the form suburbes is

  8. Rural development - Wikipedia

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    Often, rural regions have experienced rural poverty, poverty greater than urban or suburban economic regions due to lack of access to economic activities, and lack of investments in key infrastructure such as education. Rural development has traditionally centered on the exploitation of land-intensive natural resources such as agriculture and ...

  9. Nagar panchayat - Wikipedia

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    A nagar panchayat (transl. 'town council') or town panchayat or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban [1] and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,000 and less than 40,000 inhabitants is classified as a nagar panchayat.