Unit 4 Outline - Rural-Urban Fringe
The rural-urban fringe is the area at the edge of cities where the countryside meets the urban area. These are areas of rapid change in MEDC Cities.
Key Content:
- How is land use changing at the Rural-Urban Fringe?
- What are the impacts of this change?
- How can these impacts be managed?
Major Case Studies:
- Greenbelts - such as Cambridge ;
- New Towns - such as Cambourne (website
), west of Cambridge; - Shopping and Industrial Developments - such as Bluewater (website) in Kent and Cambridge Science Park (website);
- Inner city redevelopment as an alternative to development at the fringe.
The Rural-Urban Fringe links well to Unit 3 - MEDC City Centres.
Download the Rural-Urban Fringe Revision Sheet
Download the Cambridge and Cambourne Placemarks file for Google Earth. Read guidance on using Google Earth on the Google Earth Files page.