write any three points of rural urban continum
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The term rural-urban continuum came into existence because of the fact that a marked difference between the urban & rural character is not seen in the settlements abutting the city limits. On one hand, they have characteristics of the city because of their closeness to it & on the other they cannot deny their rural characteristics of largely unplanned development.
Some sociologists have used the concept of rural-urban continuum to stress the idea that there are no sharp breaking points to be found in the degree or quantity of rural-urban differences. The differences may arise due to various factors. But the leading factor among them is migration. Although, the rapid process of urbanization through the establishment of industries, urban traits and facilities has decreased the differences between villages and cities, yet this continuum or loss of demarcation has proved problematic to planners & other civic departments because these areas being near the city facilitate movement of people in & out of the city & hence demand extension of facilities. This is where the entire problem lies. These areas have been of substratum for immense research in the past centuries with eminent sociologists, planners & others inferring as well as proposing ways to tackle this problem of fringe area development.
Rural-urban continuum
The concept that the size continuum of settlement from hamlet to city is reflected in a similar continuum of ways of life form, at one pole, a true rural community to, at the other, a distinctive urban society. In its most direct form the concept suggests that the population size, density and environment of a settlement are the determinants of its societal type, and that the most meaningful description of a way of life is to relate it to the settlement in which it occurs. The notion of the rural-urban continuum evolved from the work of L.Wirth on the social distinctiveness of the city. Societies at the rural end of the continuum are envisaged as being close-knit, rigidly stratified, highly stable, integrating and homogenous in composition. Urban societies are supposed to be loose in association, unstable in membership, characterized by great, social mobility and with a tendency for inter-individual contacts to occur only in one situational context (e.g. workplace, kinship, recreation) whereas in rural societies contact would occur in several different contexts.