In, relating to, or characteristic of the areas outside a town or city.
non-urban environments
pre-industrial and non-urban society
natural, non-urban scenery
Example sentencesExamples
In years to come cities will stretch out horizontally and will be non-urban.
On key issues like unemployment, the party is not sufficiently appealing to disaffected non-urban working class households.
The temperature on that day was a stifling 37 degrees at noon in a few non-urban areas.
Non-commercial bus contracts in non-urban New South Wales rely on a funding formula to secure financial support for the delivery of bus services.
Among non-urban working class voters, unemployment attracted the highest number of such responses.
Unlike missionaries from Italy and Gaul they came from a tribal, warrior society not unlike that of the English, non-urban and economically undeveloped.
Both concepts are rooted in the theoretical assumptions about what constitutes the essence of urban and non-urban life.
The early Anglo-Saxons were a non-urban people: their important places were important for hierarchical rather than economic reasons.
A specialist in the social and economic archaeology of Early Medieval Britain, he is currently researching non-urban coastal market sites.
The Yayoi culture was a non-urban, ranked agricultural society that left no written records.