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MILIEU PERIURBAIN [2 records]

Record 1 2024-05-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecosystems
  • Urban Development
  • Brush, Prairie and Forest Fires
DEF

The area where homes and other human developments meet or are intermixed with wildland fire fuels.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écosystèmes
  • Développement urbain
  • Incendies de végétation
DEF

Région dotée d'infrastructures variées (notamment des résidences privées) et d'autres modes de développement humain, qui longe une forêt ou d'autres types de combustibles végétaux ou se mêle à ces derniers.

Spanish

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Record 2 1999-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Development
CONT

the urban fringe is that subzone of rural-urban fringe in contact with the central city exhibiting a high density of occupied dwellings-a high proportion of residential, commercial, industrial and vacant as distinct from farmland and a higher rate of increase in population density, land use conversion and commuting. (L.S. Bourne, Internal Structure of the City, Toronto, 1971, Oxford University Press, p. 62).

Key term(s)
  • rural-urban fringe

French

Domaine(s)
  • Développement urbain
CONT

La suburbanisation désigne [...] l'urbanisation et [les] formes d'urbanisation aux marges des centres urbains.

Key term(s)
  • marge des centres urbains
  • marges des centres urbains

Spanish

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