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Urbanization of the Countryside.
The urbanization of the countryside or the integration of rural inhabitants into new economic and social relations with town-dwellers, can be interpreted either as the obliteration of the countryside by the technical progress of the town, or as the cooperation of rural and urban inhabitants, resulting in the disappearance of the town/country dichotomy. The essential problem is whether or not a new "urbanized" rural society can develop and create a new balance between natural conditions and technological possibilities. Urban/ rural relations can take three forms: the town, as a colonizer or parasite, lives off the rural populations to whom it rents land; the town, or industrial complex, develops independently of its surroundings, "sterilizing" instead of "fertilizing" them; the town and the countryside work together in view of a generalized and common expansion.

SummaryTourism and Urbanization of the CountrysideIn the process of urbanization of the countryside tourism plays an increasingly important role and introduces certain traits which are characteristic of the urban society 'at leisure'. This offers the rural society an opportunity for an evolution which is completely different from the past. Tourism brings new types of social relations, creating groups which are functionally differentiated. Some groups promote an adaptation to the urban civilization and a break‐up of the rural homogeneity, by bringing another culture into the receiving system. The analysis of a typical case, that of winter sports, gives an example of the implications and the significance for the future of rural society of the contacts in the field of recreation between the city and the countryside.