ruralists
Pastoral life champions
People who advocate for rural life, agricultural interests, or countryside preservation.
Ruralists may be activists opposing urban development, artists depicting pastoral scenes, or theorists who believe rural communities represent important values.
The term contrasts with urbanists: Ruralists argued the new highway would destroy farmland and small-town character.
Land-cultivating occupation holders
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
- smallholdersFarmers of modest plots
- agrariansFarming-focused political advocates
- villagersInhabitants of small settlements
landowners · peasants · ranchers · growers · cultivators · settlers · pioneers · communes
Of countryside or clergy care
- idyllicPerfectly peaceful and charming
- picturesqueVisually pleasing, paintable
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
- landscapeVisible features of terrain
nature · farmland · meadows · hedgerows · barns · cottages · harvest · seasons
Doctrine valuing farm life
- back-to-the-landMovement toward rural self-sufficiency
- pastoralismMobile livestock husbandry
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
- JeffersonianPertaining to third president's philosophy
homesteading · localism · simplicity · self-sufficiency · traditionalism · communitarianism · bioregionalism · small-scale
Movement to new territory
- exodusMass departure from somewhere
- relocationPermanent change of residence
- resettlementReestablishing in new place
- depopulationLoss of inhabitants
gentrification · counterurbanization · flight · displacement · revival · return · preservation · conservation
farmers
Land-cultivating occupation holders
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
- smallholdersFarmers of modest plots
- agrariansFarming-focused political advocates
villagers · landowners · peasants · ranchers · growers · cultivators · settlers · pioneers · communes · back-to-landers
pastoral
Of countryside or clergy care
- idyllicPerfectly peaceful and charming
- picturesqueVisually pleasing, paintable
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
landscape · nature · farmland · meadows · hedgerows · barns · cottages · harvest · seasons · wildlife
agrarianism
Doctrine valuing farm life
- back-to-the-landMovement toward rural self-sufficiency
- pastoralismMobile livestock husbandry
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
Jeffersonian · homesteading · localism · simplicity · self-sufficiency · traditionalism · communitarianism · bioregionalism · small-scale · autonomy
migration
Movement to new territory
- exodusMass departure from somewhere
- relocationPermanent change of residence
- resettlementReestablishing in new place
depopulation · gentrification · counterurbanization · flight · displacement · revival · return · preservation · conservation · development
ruralistsurbanists
Scholars of metropolitan development
city dwellers · urbanites · metropolitans · cosmopolitans · suburbanites
ruralistsurbanists
Scholars of metropolitan development
industrialists · modernizers · technocrats · centralists · progressivists