"rurban fringe" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1946, Walter Firey, “Ecological Considerations in Planning for Rurban Fringes”, in American Sociological Review, volume 11, number 4, page 413:",
          "text": "There exists what has come to be called the \"rurban fringe,\" an area occupied by tar paper shacks and stately estates, large commercial farms and one-acre part-time farms, golf courses and cemeteries, airports and obnoxious industries.",
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          "ref": "1976, Alice Coleman, “Is Planning Really Necessary?”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 142, number 3, page 420:",
          "text": "The rurban fringe conflict is between town and country.",
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          "ref": "1989, David Rhind, “Report on the Meeting of 24 April 1989”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 155, number 3, page 429:",
          "text": "They had produced a scheme which encompassed mixtures of each, resulting in Townscape, Rurban Fringe, Farmscape, Marginal Fringe and Wildscape categories which had been derived from the high detailed land use data.",
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        "An overlapping area between city and countryside which has some characteristics of each."
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