ABSTRACT
This chapter and the following one discuss one of the perhaps most visible consequences of frontier thinking in our everyday, that of a dichotomisation of urban and rural. The chapter discusses the conceptualisations of the rural in more frontier-developed Anglo literature fields and the criticisms of them, in which argumentation concerning rurality can be seen as reflecting components of frontier mythology, including assumptions regarding stages of development. The chapter also discusses the consequences of frontier thinking on conceptions of the rural, both historically and today, which can be seen in conceptions of rural planning and, for instance, supranational planning frameworks.
