Henri Lefebvre did work in rural sociology before turning fully to urban matters (does the urban even exist 'outside of' the rural?)...
This new edited volume by Joan Ramon Resina and William R. Viestenz "The New Ruralism: An Epistemology of Transformed Space" seems to look at new stages in the dialectical relationship between the city and the country (mentioning Raymond Williams' book by that title in its introduction) You can download the pdf of the introduction to The New Ruralism for free from the publisher's site…
