Social representations of rurality and urbanity in present-day Quebec. A concept mapping approach 
In Quebec, the socio-spatial reconfigurations of territories call the conventional city-country distinction into question and invite us to reexamine the actual reality of rural and urban areas. To capture the new characteristics that are taking shape in rural-urban relations, this article highlights the representations of rurality and urbanity that currently predominate in the Quebec social space, mainly by means of the method of concept mapping. The representations emerged from four discussion groups held with urban youth from Montreal and rural youth from Bas-Saint-Laurent. Our study identified an asymmetry in the relations between the country and the city, in the sense that the attributes of rurality are generally rather poorly understood by urban youth, while urban realities appear to be better understood by both urban and rural youth.