ABSTRACT
The term urban and rural interface is frequently uttered in communities today. The idea of an interface is that a common boundary is being shared by two or more groups with different identities. The urban and rural interface would imply that the boundary is being shared between a city, which has the purpose of sustaining commercial businesses, governmental offices, and high-density residential housing, and the dwellers in the country who have taken on the responsibility of food production for the population. And although this interface sometimes occurs, the more frequent interface is rural-to-rural residents, with the identity differences being those in commercial food production versus those with public jobs who live in the country in low-density housing (Fig. 1). In some cases, the interface is rural to rural, in that the identity difference is small-versus large-scale food production operations.
