dormitory towns
Commuter residential areas
Dormitory towns are residential communities whose inhabitants largely commute elsewhere to work.
The town serves primarily as a place to sleep—hence the name—while employment, shopping, and entertainment happen in a nearby city.
Also called bedroom communities.
Property values in dormitory towns often track the economic health of the cities they serve.
- sprawlExtend in disorderly fashion
- green beltIntermediate martial rank indicator
- suburbsResidential areas outside cities
- bedroom communityResidential area near employment center
- satellite cityUrban area near metropolis
commuting · exurb · rush hour · train station · housing affordability · model villages · public transport · subdivisions · low-income housing · working families · planned communities · affordable housing · housing estates · gated communities · housing boom · regional planning · residential zoning · housing policy
- outskirtsoutskirts, periphery, outskirt, fringe, environs
- planned communitiessubdivision, gated community, master-planned community, model villages, garden cities
- suburban sprawlsuburbs, sprawl, subdivisions, tract housing, housing developments
dormitory townsjob centers
Facilities assisting workforce placement
commercial centers · business districts · economic centers · factory towns · financial centers
dormitory townscity centers
Core urban districts
downtown areas · central business districts · commercial districts · inner cities
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