nonurban

Examples

• All

• Because the databases poorly capture nonurban land-use changes, these analyses are limited in informing discussions about land-use dynamics beyond the urban fringe.

  Academic text (2001)

• Farmers often prefer nonurban settings for their agricultural practices due to the larger space available.

• Routine monitoring in nonurban areas has not been a priority, especially in times of fiscal downsizing.

  Academic text (1998)

• Control of livestock waste in nonurban areas will proceed gradually over a nine-year period.

  Academic text (1990)

• Access to transportation can improve health care use, especially in nonurban settings, and farmworkers have previously cited poor transportation as a barrier.

  Academic text (2011)

• The lack of differences in youth characteristics, mental health status, and behavioral functioning between our urban and nonurban groups was, at first glance, surprising.

  Academic text (2000)

• Few studies have compared the incidence of adult asthma hospitalizations in urban and nonurban areas.

  Academic text (2006)

• Elevated ozone levels in nonurban areas are thought, however, to result mainly from atmospheric transport of ozone and ozone precursors from upwind sources such as large urban centers (6).

  Academic text (1998)

• The study reported here, using population size, population density, and traffic-related factors to define urban versus nonurban environments, selected six Pennsylvania counties to test the hypothesis that the degree of urbanization influences the asthma hospitalization rate for adults.

  Academic text (2006)

• Increasingly, people are moving to nonurban regions to enjoy a slower pace of life.

Synonyms

O

outlying

vsnonurban

5 5.0

Far from the center or main part of a place

is about being outside urban areas rather than only being distant

N

nonmetropolitan

vsnonurban

6.7

In areas outside a large city that are rural or in small towns

is a broader term for places not characteristic of urban areas

C

cityless

vsnonurban

7.0

A place that has no cities or towns

means being outside urban characteristics rather than fully lacking cities

Antonyms

U

urban

571 2.5

About a city or town rather than the countryside

How Urban

metropolitan

121 4.8

urban

571 2.5

suburban

234 3.5

nonurban

4.2

rural

392 2.5

remote

218 3.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology