摘要：The term of rural-urban fringe is more or less
used in the specialized Romanian literature, which
might be a consequence of the fact it superposes or
confounds itself, as delimitation, with the periurban area
or/and urban periphery. A brief presentation of the
terms included in the equation of territorial delimitation,
starting with the urban CBD to the effectively rural
region, clarifies the succession of different concentric
areas in a certain proportion. In order to reveal the
expectancy horizon of this term, it is also necessary to
study the situation at international level, where it is used
to the prejudice of periurban or where both terms are
used. This study emphasizes that an empirical research
on terminology is far from being sufficient, the analysis
of the methods used in determining the limits being also
quite necessary, as our main target is to observe if the
areas are superposed or if they are complementary.
关键词：rural-urban fringe, space, periurban, urban
periphery, human settlement system
