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An exurb (or alternately: exurban area) is an area outside the typically denser inner suburban area, at the edge of a metropolitan area, which has some economic and commuting connection to the metro area, low housing density, and growth.
Farther out than suburbs but still connected to a major urban center, exurbs lie at the ever-shifting border between urban and rural spaces and are defined by economic ties to a city, low density housing, and high population growth.
- Diana Ionescu
Aug 13, 2024 · “Exurb” refers to the zone between an urbanized area and a rural hinterland, a geography that is neither fully urban nor fully rural. Exurbs contain characteristics of both urban and rural. However, exurbs take different forms in different global contexts.
- jason.luger@northumbria.ac.uk
Aug 4, 2021 · For starters, exurbs offer cheaper housing than urban areas and suburbs. Their distance from city centers left them fairly untapped in the past. But as the pandemic sparked a...
- Ben Winck
- Henry Blodget
Apr 17, 2024 · Exurbs are difficult to define, as Business Insider indicates, but they do have certain features that differentiate them from the rural world and from suburbs. In terms of the latter, which exist...
Jul 29, 2009 · The concept of exurbia has traditionally been used to describe settlement patterns simultaneously dispersed from the city yet also connected to urban networks. This paper reviews scholarship across disciplines including geography, ecology, sociology, and political ecology.
Exurbs are essentially rural in character and are located outside the comfortable commuting distances to core cities and the area characterised by continuous suburbanisation. They are nevertheless a functional part of a region related to the core (Lamb, 1983).
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