satellite cities
Surrounding urban areas
Satellite cities are smaller urban areas that develop around and depend on a larger metropolitan center, connected by commuter traffic and economic ties.
They maintain their own identity while orbiting the gravitational pull of the main city: The satellite cities ringing Los Angeles have their own downtowns but feed workers into the central business district.
Distinguished from suburbs by having more independent commercial and civic life.
- suburbsResidential areas outside cities
- commuter townsResidential areas near employment centers
- dormitory townsResidential areas for commuters
- exurbsCommunities beyond suburbs
- metropolisLarge important city
metropolitan area · urban sprawl · bedroom community · transit-oriented development · decentralization · developments · regional planning · residential area · suburbanization · housing developments · transportation network · infrastructure development · urban fringe · city limits · urban planning · industrial parks · public transportation · new towns
- urban sprawlsprawl, suburbanization, suburbs, subdivisions, tract housing
- urbanizationcity, urban growth, metropolis, urban sprawl, suburbanization
- planned communitiesplanned towns, subdivision, gated community, new towns, master-planned community
- urban planningcity planning, zoning map, master plans, zones, zoning reform
- Soviet Architectureprefab housing, Seven Sisters, brutalism, housing estates, concrete blocks
- Soviet CitiesLeningrad, Stalingrad, Kaliningrad, Molotov, Brezhnev
satellite citiesprincipal city
Dominant urban hub
capital city · gateway city · urban core · central business district · downtown
satellite citiesrural areas
Sparsely populated regions
countryside · hinterland · rural villages · backcountry · remote settlements