commuter belts
Residential rings outside
Commuter belts are the residential areas surrounding a major city, where people live while working in the urban center.
The image is of a belt encircling the city—suburbs and smaller towns connected by rail lines and highways that workers travel daily.
Property prices in the commuter belt have risen sharply.
The term is more common in British than American English, where suburbs covers similar ground.
- outskirtsOuter parts of town
- rush hourBusiest commuting period
- train delaysLate locomotive arrivals
- satellite townsSettlements orbiting a metropolis
- suburbsResidential areas outside cities
morning traffic · drivers · bedroom communities · real estate · home prices · workforce · urban fringe · suburban sprawl · highways · housing affordability · school districts · zoning laws · cars · parking lots · exurbs · railway stations · London Underground · regional planning
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
- human geographycultural landscape, demographics, migration, demography, urbanization
- economic regionseconomic zones, industrial zones, trade zones, silicon valley, heartland
commuter beltscity center
Urban area's main district
downtown · urban core · city centre · inner city · central business district
commuter beltsisolated communities
Settlements with limited outside contact
backcountry · hinterland · wilderness · outback · the sticks
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