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Definitions for the terms urban, small towns and rural?
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Re: Definitions for the terms urban, small towns and rural?
You could copy the content of the pdf file into Google Translate and get it in another language that way. Find the Google Translate page in Google, or e.g. here: translate.google.de/
Good luck,
Elisabeth
P.S. for the benefit of others: we have a Google Translate plug-in at the top of this forum and at the top of the SuSanA website to translate the forum posts and SuSanA website pages as well. Yes, Google Translate is not perfect but it's a pretty good start!
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Do we have the mechanism in the Kunena system for conversion of documents, in whatever language they are, to English language?
I'm eager to have Hector's document in English.
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Thank you for your post. I'm afraid, I cannot read the 138-page document that you have linked, as it is not in English.
Will it be possible for you to arrange for an English version? I'm sure, it must be a useful document.
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F H Mughal
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"...aims to establish a typology of Spanish urban/rural spaces more complete and detailed than can be obtained using traditional criteria..."
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A ‘community’ is defined as a population living within a single social organizational structure. The term ‘neighbourhood’ is used to describe geographically distinct units within the community.
(Source: Designing a Mixed-Methods Approach for Collaborative Local Water Security: Findings from a Kenyan Case Study; DOI 10.1007/s12403-017-0251-0)
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There must be definitions by international agencies.
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Re: Definitions for the terms urban, small towns and rural?
I've moved your post into this existing, related thread. Please scroll up and review the previous posts. They may not answer your question entirely but probably go part way. I am not sure if there is a clear cut JMP definition for it. Have you looked at e.g. that WASHwatch website, perhaps they have a definition there? (washwatch.org/en/)
If not, we could also check with Amy or others which definition JMP uses; perhaps just the same as the national governments (which may vary from one country to another, as indicated in the posts above).
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I'm looking for official definition of terms: rural areas; urban areas; rural sanitation; and urban sanitation.
With "official," I mean definitions by JPM (WHO-UNICEF); UNEP; UNHABITAT; UNESCAP; The World Bank; The Asian Development Bank; and WaterAid.
Can anyone help me, please.
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For example another term for small towns (used in east Africa) is Rural Growth Centre, and I like that it emphasises the population growth aspect, something very important in many cases.
Another term often used is "peri urban" which puts the emphasis on urban fringe areas and urban spread along transportation ways, something that is as a concept given rapid urbanisation, probably also more helpful that the urban / small town dichotomy.
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Re: Definitions for the terms urban, small towns and rural?
My first impression is that defining those terms by number of residents is
too simplified. Well, it always depends on the purpose of the definition. Do
you need the definition for funding purposes? (some funding schemes are only
available for “small towns” or rural areas).
If it is about to analyze the social or economic structure, other parameters
might be more useful.
For example in Germany I know about the discussion about the relationships
between urban and rural areas and that the development of one area depends
on the surrounding factors and not only on the area itself.
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milli
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1. Urban: 20,000 peopleor more
2. small town (semi-urban): between 5,000 and less than 20,000people
3. Rural: less than 5,000 residents.
However, some programme uses presence of infrastructures, such as pipe borne water supply, among others as the defining factor.
Is it possible to have a universabledefinition of these terminologies?
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Femi Aluko
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This post was originally in this thread where Elisabeth had written:
And here I am wondering what is your definition of urban and rural is? Is the town of Mzuzu regarded as urban or rural (or both)? Some town planners in developing countries use the simplistic definition sewer = urban, no sewer = rural, is that also the case in Malawi perhaps?
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