Peri-urbanisation

Mountain valleys of industrialised countries (e.g. Inn valley) are often periurbanised.
The periurbanised Swiss Limmat valley.
Hospital in a peri-urban area in Gijón.

Peri-urbanisation relates to the processes of scattered and dispersive urban growth that create hybrid landscapes of fragmented and mixed urban and rural characteristics. Such areas may be referred to as the rural–urban fringe, the outskirts or the urban hinterland.