Unit 4 Outline - Rural-Urban Fringe
The rural-urban fringe is the area at the edge of cities where the countryside meets the urban area. These are areas of rapid change in MEDC Cities.
Key Content:
- How is land use changing at the Rural-Urban Fringe?
- What are the impacts of this change?
- How can these impacts be managed?
Major Case Studies:
- Greenbelts - such as Cambridge ;
- New Towns - such as Cambourne (website
), west of Cambridge; - Shopping and Industrial Developments - such as Bluewater (website) in Kent and Cambridge Science Park (website);
- Inner city redevelopment as an alternative to development at the fringe.
The Rural-Urban Fringe links well to Unit 3 - MEDC City Centres.
Download the Rural-Urban Fringe Revision Sheet
Download the Cambridge and Cambourne Placemarks file for Google Earth. Read guidance on using Google Earth on the Google Earth Files page.
Jump to the BBC Bitesize section on Urban Sprawl - only use the page linked to. No need to go to other pages for this unit
Jump to the BBC Bitesize section on Urban issues in MEDC Cities - this crosses over very nicely with Unit 3 - MEDC City Centres