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- adjective
Immediately adjoining anurban area; between thesuburbs and thecountryside .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They are also being used around the urban and peri-urban areas as a taxi.
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The intiative investigates sustainable mid-sized developments to revive rural and peri-urban areas, and aims to allow businesses test out innovative technologies and services at a village scale.
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Near the city is “peri-urban”, which is included in most definitions of urban agriculture.
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Though fast growth of telecom coverage was attained in India thanks to leap-frogging wireless technology that negated need of copper and some fiber optic cable, 50% of the country, mostly in rural areas, does not have coverage, impacting the livelihoods of the rural poor who have, in the case of peri-urban settings, willingly paid for mobile phone access for income generating needs.
Sunil Chacko: Risk Management in Introducing High-Technologies Into High-Growth Markets Sunil Chacko 2012
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In the urban context, the poor are increasingly being weeded out of the urban land market because of sky-rocketing land prices and enormous speculation in urban and peri-urban land transactions.
Scott Baker: Will India Lead the Way in Urban Land Tax Reform? A Mission Director from the Indian Ministry of Housing Provides Some Answers Scott Baker 2011
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One advantage to urban, or suburban, or “peri-urban” farming that no one seems to mention is the management of agricultural runoff.
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They are also being used around the urban and peri-urban areas as a taxi.
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In the urban context, the poor are increasingly being weeded out of the urban land market because of sky-rocketing land prices and enormous speculation in urban and peri-urban land transactions.
Scott Baker: Will India Lead the Way in Urban Land Tax Reform? A Mission Director from the Indian Ministry of Housing Provides Some Answers Scott Baker 2011
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I believe very strongly in many of these ideas but they can be hard to communicate, especially when the discourse is peppered with terminology like "peri-urban," "phytoremediation," and "bioregional ecologies."
Dave Snyder: The Good, the Bad and the Fungi on a Rooftop Farm 2010
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I believe very strongly in many of these ideas but they can be hard to communicate, especially when the discourse is peppered with terminology like "peri-urban," "phytoremediation," and "bioregional ecologies."
Dave Snyder: The Good, the Bad and the Fungi on a Rooftop Farm 2010
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