Regarding the study of human settlements, one interrogation is shared among the endless publications that analyze human agglomerations, this primal question is: what does ‘The Urban’ mean? Definitions about ‘the urban’ have been formulated concerning variables such as function, size, density, area, context, history, culture, economic development, international influence, and so on. On the other hand, ‘The Rural’ is regularly interpreted in order to provide a parallel archetype opposed to the urban question. Pieter Versteegh believes that ‘research on the urban is as necessary as abundant. Yet tremendous rural territories still exist, inhabited by 20-50% of the world populations (figures depending … Continue reading ‘Rurality’ and ‘the Urban” Two archetypes that conceptualize the spatial development of human territories