Rural areas have their own dynamics that cannot be interpreted only by the impact of urban evolution on the rural world. Classical concepts of urbanisation of the countryside, of peri-urbanisation, are concepts that consider rural evolution as merely a consequence of urbanisation mechanisms in the morphological and functional sense of the term. In this paper, conceptual criteria and empirical elements are exposed with a view to validating the following: that a specific relation to space, particularly rural, is constructed from an the extension of forms of mobility translated by habitation modes, territories and specific cultural forms translating an integration into modernity that is not simply assimilated to the urban model.