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Beyond city limits: New ecology framework links urban, rural and wild landscapes
- April 27, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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As cities sprawl into suburbs and exurbs, the distinction between urban areas and the countryside has become increasingly blurry. A new paper published in npj Urban Sustainability proposes that many modern landscapes can be managed more holistically when they are understood as a mixture of urban, rural, and wild features. The paper is titled "The continuum of urbanity: a synthetic concept for research on urban-rural mixtures."
Originally published at Phys.org