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Green Belt
Area surrounding a large city, officially designated not to be built on but preserved where possible as open space for agricultural and recreational use. In the UK the first green belts were established from 1938 around conurbations such as London in order to prevent urban sprawl. New towns were set up to take the overspill population.
The term generally refers to the ‘outer ring’ proposed in the Greater London Plan by Patrick Abercrombie; Abercrombie envisaged a static population in this ring, with new towns beyond it.
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agriculture
arable farming
cash crop
catch crop
common land
counter-urbanization
crop (agriculture)
crop rotation
factory farming
farming
farming system
green belt
irrigation
land tenure
ley
monoculture
rural depopulation
settlement
settlement functions
slash and burn
soil erosion
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