Abstract
The periphery of every American metropolis has an irregular zone where the least intensive urban landuses are steadily displacing the most intensive rural ones. This urban-rural fringe is the new metropolitan frontier, a perimetropolitan bow wave pushes outward as the vanguard of urban expansion. The fringe for one generation becomes a suburban zone for the next, and the agricultural activities are pushed farther out to a new fringe. A case study of the region within a 50-mile radius of Times Squares in New York City illustrates the bow-wave phenomenon. -Author
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 35-51 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Geographical Review |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1991 |
