In the National Interest: Defining Rural and Urban Correctly in Research and Public Policy

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Spatio-temporal pattern of China's rural development: A rurality index perspective (2015, background): “However, historically rural development and rural areas were intrinsically associated with non-urbanization and agriculture, which is not sufficient to describe today's complex reality (Isserman, 2005).”
Why Some Rural Places Prosper and Others Do Not (2009, methodology): “In this research, as in Isserman (2005, 2007) and Feser and Isserman (2009), we recognize as two separate dimensions the population settlement pattern of a county and its integration with a substantial population nucleus.”
A Continuous Multi-dimensional Measure of Rurality: Moving Beyond Threshold Measures (2006, methodology): “To remedy these shortcomings, Isserman (2005) suggested a rural-urban density typology.”
Modeling energy consumption and CO2 emissions at the urban scale: Methodological challenges and insights from the United States (2010, methodology): “Urban counties, as defined by Isserman (2005), account for 37% of direct energy consumption, or 50% if mixed urban counties are included.”