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“Rural–urban continuum makes more sense than rural–urban dichotomy.” Comment.

  • Settlement Geography

The rural–urban dichotomy treats village and city as two distinct social worlds; the rural–urban continuum treats them as ends of a single gradient along which settlements shade into one another. The dichotomy has a serious pedigree and real administrative utility, but as a description of how people actually work, move and live it has been…

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  • The Dichotomy and Its Intellectual Ancestry
  • The Administrative Case for a Line
  • The Continuum and the Case Against the Break
  • The Empirical Evidence of Gradation
  • The Indian Evidence
  • What the Dichotomy Still Gets Right
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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