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How can rural-urban fringe be delineated? Explain with suitable examples from India.

  • UPSC 2025
  • Settlements

The fringe is a zone of transition, not a line — George S. Wehrwein (1942) fixed it as the belt between recognised urban land uses and land in agriculture; R.J. Pryor (1968) split it into inner urban and outer rural fringes. Delineation means choosing a criterion and a threshold; each draws the boundary elsewhere.

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