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peri-urban

adj
/ˌpɛɹ.iˈɝ.bən/US

Etymology

From peri- + urban.

  1. derived from *gʰerdʰ-✻ — “to encircle, enclose; a belt; an enclosure, fence”
  2. derived from urbānus — “of or belonging to a city, urban; of manners or style: like those of city dwellers: cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated”
  3. borrowed from urbain — “belonging to a city, urban; courteous, refined, urbane”
  4. prefixed as peri-urban — “peri + urban”

Definitions

  1. Immediately adjoining an urban area

    Immediately adjoining an urban area; between the suburbs and the countryside.

    • Urban agriculture is the growing of plants and raising of animals in and around urban or peri-urban areas.
    • Although Lusaka is the smallest town in Lusaka Province and one of the smallest in the nation, it has the biggest population and largest growth rates, and there is pressure from in-migration and growth in peri-urban settlements.
    • In this respect, Yuxi represents an intermediate case, between the encompassing model of residence-based citizenship being created in peri-urban communities around Changsha and the gender exclusivity of Fuzhou villages.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for peri-urban. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA