Discipline of urban geography during 1940’s in United States and in Western Europe noted the gradual changes on the city fringes. This led to starting up a field of urban studies which started focusing on the processes that shaped peri urban fringes a transitional space that catered to the meeting of urban and rural spaces.
The term urban fringe was used for the first time by American geographers describing changes in the population composition of Louisiana, and during the 1940s and 1950s it was widely adopted in the academic literature, under the meaning of an area where the suburban growth was taking place and where urban and rural uses of the land were mixed, forming together a transition zone between city and countryside.
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