1. Managing Environmental Change at the Rural Urban
Fringe
2. What is the RUF?
The fringe is not just the place where town meets country but a
collection of dynamic and productive environments set in inspiring
cultural landscapes, meeting the needs of both the present and
helping to change the way we live in the future.
Spedding 2004:1
3. Differing perspectives
4. Planning views of the RUF?
Misunderstood space (Gallent et al 2006)
5. A transition phase/edge which is largely placeless?
(Qvistrom, 2005) 6. Metaphor of the fringe as a weed (Cresswell
1997) 7. Battleground between urban and rural uses (Hough, 1990) 8.
Landscape out of order (Qvistrom 2007)
