Phys.org

Study maps urban-rural catchment areas and points to ways to optimize policy and planning coordination for agriculture

Fewer than 1% of people globally live in truly remote hinterlands, sharpening the need for better understanding of how urban forms impact food systems as well as social and economic development, ...
New York Magazine

The Urban-Rural Culture War Has Gone Global

Blue America is a nation with an ever-shrinking countryside. In 2008, Barack Obama won 875 U.S. counties; in 2020, Joe Biden won 527, thanks largely to the rightward drift of rural jurisdictions. The ...
The Conversation

Healing the urban‑rural divide: Why a ‘locals‑first’ approach doesn’t work in a pandemic

Toilet paper and ventilators may be unlikely bedfellows, but they serve as powerful symbols of the growing tensions between urban and rural regions in Australia and elsewhere amid the COVID-19 ...
The Conversation

Canada’s worrisome urban‑rural political divide has never been greater

After all the ballots were counted in the recent Canadian federal election, was anyone surprised that Gudie Hutchings, incumbent Liberal MP in the district of Long Range Mountains, Newfoundland and ...
MinnPost

Urban-rural misunderstandings in Minnesota abound, but we’re all neighbors

Voters standing behind a curtain at Florence Town Hall in Frontenac on Election Day in 2020. Credit: REUTERS/Eric Miller Election Day has always held wonders for me. I grew up in southern Minnesota ...