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  1. Area surrounding a large city, officially
  2. designated not to be built on but preserved
  3. as open space (for agricultural and
  4. recreational use). The scheme was launched in
  5. the UK in 1935, and the term generally
  6. referred to the `outer ring' proposed in the
  7. Greater London Plan by Patrick Abercrombie
  8. (1879-1957); Abercrombie envisaged a static
  9. population in this ring, with new towns
  10. beyond it.
  11.