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Explain the stages of growth of the rural–urban fringe.

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  • Settlement Geography

The rural–urban fringe is the belt where a city's outward expansion is under way but not yet finished. G.S. Wehrwein (1942) described it as the area of transition between well recognised urban land uses and the area devoted to agriculture. Its growth is not one event but an ordered sequence — anticipation, conversion, consolidation, absorption…

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  • The Zone Whose Growth Is Being Traced
  • Stage One: The Agrarian Pre-Fringe
  • Stage Two: Speculation and the Impermanence Syndrome
  • Stage Three: Piecemeal Conversion
  • Stage Four: Infilling and Consolidation
  • Stage Five: Coalescence and the Migrating Fringe
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion

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