This article is interested in the deterioration of limits between rural and urban spaces in seats of small rural municipalities. Based in a case study - a city of less than 3 thousand inhabitants - this article postulates that the inadequate nomination of the seat of smaller rural municipalities as a "city" could to generate profound changes in townscape and in theirs representations, which by the inscription of urban values and rural practices in its territory allows the configuration of a rurban landscape.
Rurban landscape; Seat of small rural municipality; Morphogenesis