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What is Rural
This question has been asked to the following groups by Ian Sinclair on the dates shown. The people were asked the following question: What is the one word or phrase that sums up the term rural land for you? Its purpose is to find out what people's views are about rural land and to show how diverse they are.
University of NSW, Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning and Urban Development Program, Year 5 Students, 3 March 1999
  • Paddocks
  • Cows
  • Septic Tanks
  • Dirt Roads
  • Main Streets
  • No Street lights
  • Non Urban
  • Low Density
  • Acreage
  • Community
  • Farm
  • Catseyes on Roads
  • Small Towns
  • Agriculture
  • Tractor
  • Country Women's Association
  • Openness, No confinement
  • Scenic
  • Bushland, Scrub
  • Fresh Air
  • Grass
Southern Cross University, Land Use Planning Students, 21 April 1999
  • Space
  • Agriculture
  • Country
  • Cows
  • Cleared Land
  • Rivers
Ubiversity of NSW,Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning Law and Practice Goes Bush, Coffs Harbour, 13 May 1999
  • Sounds and Smells
  • Tranquillity
  • Agriculture Land Use
  • Open
  • Visual
  • Colour - Green
  • Big Sky
  • Few People
  • Not many Buildings
  • Low Density
Shellharbour City Council Rural Lands Working Party, Shellharbour, 21 May 1999
  • Livelihood
  • Beauty and Spirit
  • Lifestyle
  • Scenic
  • Heritage
  • Quality of life
  • Serenity
  • Economic Development
  • Tucker
  • Water catchment
  • Food
  • Hassles
  • Resource
  • Farming and Natural Resources
  • Soil
  • Remote area power
  • Balance
  • Where I grew up
  • Complimentary and Contrasting
  • Our Future
University of NSW, Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning Law and Practice Goes Bush, Orange, 19 July, 1999
  • Farmland
  • Low density residential
  • Diverse land use
  • Rural environments - towns and countryside
  • Prime agricultural land
  • Land for agriculture
  • Biodiverstiy conservation
  • Agricultural industry
University of Technology Land Economy Students, Sydney, 4 August 1999
  • Cattle
  • Outback
  • Farms
  • Barren
  • Wheat
  • Dairy
  • Agistment
  • Irrigation
  • Agriculture
  • Horticulture
  • Farmland
  • Sparse
  • Tractors
  • Farmers
  • Trees
  • Primary industry
  • Grazing
  • Self sufficiency
  • Open space
  • Dry arid
  • Shearing
  • Pasture
  • Drought
  • Sheep
  • Desert
  • Bushland
  • Limited development
  • Limited population
  • Vegetation
  • Cows
University of NSW, Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning Law and Practice Goes Bush, Wagga Wagga, 9 August, 1999
  • Struggle
  • Grazing
  • Productive
  • Not Urban
  • Undeveloped
  • Non Urban, Non Industrial, Productive
  • Agricultural Uses & Natural Vegetation
University of NSW, Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning and Urban Development Program, Year 2 Students, 31 August 1999
  • Agriculture
  • Farming, Dry land
  • Fresh Air
  • Open Space
  • Large Lots
  • Industry
  • More Vegetation
  • Underdeveloped
  • Serenity
  • Not Sydney
  • Low Density
  • Produce
  • Large spaces
  • B & S Ball
  • Pubs
  • Utes
  • Non-Urban
  • Moo
  • Bushland
  • Country Bumpkin
University of NSW, Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning Law and Practice Short Course, 1 December 1999
  • Landscape
  • Agriculture
  • Land Use Diversity
  • Farmland
  • Countryside
  • Native Animals
  • Agriculture
  • Hills
  • Low Population
  • Primary Production
  • Clean Air
  • Crops
  • Primary Production
  • Cows
  • Open Spaces
  • Undeveloped
  • Primary Industry
  • Bush
  • Agriculture
  • Growing Things
  • Cows
  • Farmland
  • Low Density
  • Farmland
  • Non Urban
  • Lifestyle
  • Rural Residential
  • Lot Size
  • Non Urban
  • Space
University of NSW, Faculty of the Built Environment, Planning and Urban Development Program, Year 5 Students, 1 March 2000
  • Country
  • Cows
  • Tractors
  • Open Fields
  • Unplanned Chaos
  • Agriculture
  • Suicide
  • Lot Numbers
  • Site Contamination
  • Trees
  • Markets
  • Pubs, People & Flanalet Shirts
  • Dusty
  • Conservaation
  • Uncensored Activiteis
  • Dumping Rubbish
  • Country Towns
  • Long Roads
  • Grass
  • Drivers with Hats
  • Remnant Vegetation
  • Dams
  • Slow Lifestyle
  • Fresh Air
  • Road Kill
  • Isolation
  • Farm
  • Open Spaces
  • Crops
  • Utes
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