ABSTRACT
The definition of an area tends to fix our understanding and ability to be aware of important societal phenomena. The core/periphery divide for one may easily swamp inquiry with binary approaches: you either live in the core or not, your home is core located or in the periphery, etc. Our aim is to discuss how spatial and functional housing and home issues are unfolding between an urban core and an urban hinterland which is nature-amenity rich; the societal development this expresses calls for a fuzzy approach rather than a binary one to understand how households organise their lives. The relation between a house in the core and a house for leisure purposes in the periphery establishes one link between the core and the periphery, and this is of increasing importance in Norway (Overvåg, 2009b) and is the focus of attention here.
