The term counter-urban is a playful response to the perceived dominance and superiority of metropolitan cultural values over all other environments. A more assertive linguistic alternative to the passive, generic descriptor ‘regional’, ‘counter-urbanism’ is, as the term suggests, an active oppositional force to urbanism. But counter-urbanism is not anti-urbanism. Rather, by describing a flow of conscious activity, enterprise and thinking in different directions, away from major cities, counter-urbanism can be a complementary force to urbanism.
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