Editing Exurb (section)

{{Short description|Area of lower population density than suburbs}}
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[[File:Near the "Wedge" on Delaware-Maryland-Pennsylvania State Line (2894743106).jpg|thumb|Exurban-style density along the Pennsylvania–Maryland–Delaware border, part of [[Delaware Valley|Philadelphia metropolitan area]]]]
[[File:Massies Corner to Mount Airy.svg|thumb|Exurban development (left side) blends into suburban development (right side) in [[Loudoun County, Virginia]], in the western part of the [[Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area]].]]

An '''exurb''' (or alternately: '''exurban area''') is an area outside the typically denser inner [[suburbs|suburban area]], at the edge of a [[metropolitan area]], which has some economic and commuting connection to the metro area, low housing-density,<ref>
{{cite book
 |last1                = Gordon
 |first1               = David L. A.
 |editor-last1         = Maginn
 |editor-first1        = Paul
 |editor-last2         = Anacker
 |editor-first2        = Katrin B.
 |date                 = 24 March 2022
 |chapter              = The Canadian Dream? Growth Trends in Canada's Suburban and Urban Neighbourhoods
 |title                = Suburbia in the 21st Century: From Dreamscape to Nightmare?
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=9p9cEAAAQBAJ
 |series               = Routledge Advances in Sociology
 |publication-place    = Abingdon
 |doi                  = 10.4324/9781315644165-8
 |publisher            = Routledge
 |isbn                 = 9781317288183
 |access-date          = 14 November 2024
 |quote                = Technical definition: exurbs have a gross population density less than 150 people per square km and more than 50 per cent of workers commuting into the metropolitan area, as per OECD and Statistics Canada definitions (du Plessis et al., 2001).
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and relatively high population-growth.<ref>
{{cite book
 |last1                = Sharp
 |first1               = Jeff S.
 |last2                = Clark
 |first2               = Jill K.
 |editor-last1         = Brennan
 |editor-first1        = Mark A.
 |editor-last2         = Bridger
 |editor-first2        = Jeffrey C.
 |editor-last3         = Alter
 |editor-first3        = Theodore R.
 |date                 = 19 June 2013
 |chapter              = Settling at the Margins Exurbia and Community Sociology
 |title                = Theory, Practice, and Community Development
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=CRF_EBkWr58C
 |series               = Community Development Research and Practice
 |publication-place    = New York
 |publisher            = Routledge
 |doi                  = 10.4324/9780203773710-3
 |isbn                 = 9781135038908
 |access-date          = 14 November 2024
 |quote                = The rural-urban fringe, or what is increasingly referred to as exurbia, has attracted interest in recent years due to the relatively rapid population growth and land-use change occurring there.
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It shapes an interface between [[urban area|urban]] and [[rural area|rural]] landscapes, holding a limited urban nature for its functional, economic, and social interaction with the [[city centre|urban center]], due to its dominant residential character.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of the City |editor-last=Caves |editor-first=R. W.|first=Urbano|last=Fra Paleo|title=Exurbia|publisher=Routledge |year=2004 |page=254}}</ref> Exurbs consist of "agglomerations of housing and jobs outside the municipal boundaries of a primary city"<ref>{{cite journal|last=Shirgaokar|first=M|year=2014|title=Employment centers and travel behavior: exploring the work commute of Mumbai's rapidly motorizing middle class|journal=Journal of Transport Geography|volume=41|pages=249–258|doi=10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2014.10.003}} "Here the term exurb is taken from the North American planning literature, and is used to designate agglomerations of housing and jobs outside the municipal boundaries of a primary city. Such exurbs may have independent municipal governance."</ref> and beyond the surrounding suburbs.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Duffy|first=A|year=2009|title=Land use planning in Ireland – a life cycle energy analysis of recent residential development in the Greater Dublin Area|journal=The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment|volume=14|number=3|pages=268–277|doi=10.1007/s11367-009-0059-7|s2cid=56212626|url=https://arrow.dit.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=engschcivart|url-access=subscription}} "The GDA was split into four zones each encompassing development at increasing radii from Dublin's city centre, namely: city centre, suburbs, exurbs and commuter towns."</ref>