Absorption of rural communities

Typical small villages are being engulfed by new suburban development or ribbon development stretching out along country roads or haphazard scattered development in the countryside. Villages are in a danger to become commuter or retirement dormitories accessible only to those on higher incomes.

1. Vulnerability of small towns
2. Uncontrolled physical expansion of cities
3. Neglect of agricultural and rural life
4. Loss of internal political borders
5. Destruction of the countryside

1. Urbanization of rural areas
2. Unidentifiable urban neighbourhoods
3. Fragmented community image
4. Fear of the city
5. Demoralizing images of rural community identity

1. Unsustainable rural development
2. Uncertain land zoning
3. Geographically undefined community limits

1. Boundary constraints on land planning

1. Limiting urban encroachment of the countryside
2. Colonizing

1. Selfishness
2. Encroachment
3. Colonization