Rural

The dichotomy of ' rural' and ' urban' is one of the most basic yet powerful ideas in Geography. ' Rural' and ' urban' ' and their related terms ' city' and ' country' , ' town' and ' countryside' , ' urbanity' and ' rurality' ' describe and permit an ordering of space that goes beyond a mere territorial classification to imply particular forms of social and economic organization, cultures, lifestyles and landscapes. Without the ' rural' there could be no ' urban' , yet rural space is not just...