The intiative investigates sustainable mid-sized developments to revive rural and peri-urban areas, and aims to allow businesses test out innovative technologies and services at a village scale. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Near the city is “peri-urban”, which is included in most definitions of urban agriculture. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They are also being used around the urban and peri-urban areas as a taxi. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Though fast growth of telecom coverage was attained in India thanks to leap-frogging wireless technology that negated need of copper and some fiber optic cable, 50% of the country, mostly in rural areas, does not have coverage, impacting the livelihoods of the rural poor who have, in the case of peri-urban settings, willingly paid for mobile phone access for income generating needs. ❋ Sunil Chacko (2012)
In the urban context, the poor are increasingly being weeded out of the urban land market because of sky-rocketing land prices and enormous speculation in urban and peri-urban land transactions. ❋ Scott Baker (2011)
One advantage to urban, or suburban, or “peri-urban” farming that no one seems to mention is the management of agricultural runoff. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I believe very strongly in many of these ideas but they can be hard to communicate, especially when the discourse is peppered with terminology like "peri-urban," "phytoremediation," and "bioregional ecologies." ❋ Unknown (2010)
[As] we head towards 2050, and there are going to be 9 billion of us and there aren't the fossil fuel resources and the water resources we take for granted, we know the kinds of policies we're going to need to survive that: we'll need a lot more peri-urban farming and urban farming. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The rapidly expanding peri-urban slums encircling cities throughout the world are a swarm of these dwellings ready to kill their occupants at the slightest shaking or downpour. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This peri-urban fighting was fierce and sustained, even if it helped protect the population from the insurgency. ❋ Unknown (2009)
“The peri-urban Revitalization Element puRE is a catalyst for fostering sustainable development within existing suburban areas, by re-envisioning a classic suburban icon—the swimming pool—and transforming it into a productive, water-treating element within a community.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
Islamist leaders tend to come from the middle and upper-middle classes, and its followers tends to come from peri-urban areas. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"This primarily urban and peri-urban population remains horribly overlooked simply because they are in the cities, but I argue that is where you will always find the most children, where the migratory routes are leading more children every day, and where there is a tremendous need as populations overburden the cities 'abilities to provide anything resembling potable water," says Eric. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He paused for tea after a long day and explained a little bit about the Bukavu peri-urban community where he lives, full of people who had arrived recently from the countryside fleeing war. ❋ Unknown (2009)
* Economic growth, especially in developing countries, is driving new urban and peri-urban developments and the associated shift in populations. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Accordingly, any successful land reform programme must include the identification and release of urban and peri-urban land for settlement, housing and job creation, as well as reform of ownership and use of land suitable for farming. ❋ Unknown (2008)
