https://metropolitiques.eu/The-mis-measurement-of.html (Peri)urban sprawl is unanimously decried as a cause for economic, environmental and social concern. And yet defining the phenomenon itself is a complicated undertaking that significantly affects the measurement thereof. The “periurban” realm, whose rapid expansion since the 1960s has caused widespread concern, is difficult to grasp owing to its ambiguous nature, somewhere between urban and rural. Incidentally, the term “periurbanization” has only latterly gained currency in the French en SPIP - www.spip.net https://metropolitiques.eu/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH96/arton149-d9e23.jpg?1768091300 https://metropolitiques.eu/The-mis-measurement-of.html 96 144