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URBAN FRINGE [2 records]

Record 1 2015-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Census
  • Statistical Surveys
CONT

The term "fringe" includes all population centres within a CMA [census metropolitan area] or CA [census agglomeration] that have less than 10,000 persons and are not contiguous with the core or secondary core.

OBS

urban fringe: [term replaced by] "fringe" ... for the 2011 Census.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recensement
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)
CONT

Le terme «banlieue» inclut tous les centres de population à l'intérieur d'une RMR [région métropolitaine de recensement] ou d'une AR [agglomération de recensement] qui ont moins de 10 000 habitants et qui ne sont pas adjacents au noyau ou au noyau secondaire.

OBS

banlieue urbaine : [terme remplacé par] «banlieue» [...] pour le Recensement de 2011.

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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