Satellite city
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A satellite city or satellite town is a smaller
Satellite cities versus other types of settlement
Satellite cities are different from and are sometimes confused with the following related patterns of development.
Suburbs
Satellite cities differ from
Edge cities
Satellite cities differ from
Conceptually, both satellite cities and some types of edge cities could be (and once were) self-sufficient communities outside of their larger metropolitan areas but have become interconnected due to the suburban expansion of the larger metropolis. However, while edge cities may have their own government and share many characteristics with satellite cities, they are much more physically integrated with the core city and would not exist in anything like their present form if not for the suburban expansion of their larger neighbor. Edge cities are activity nodes within a metro area, not miniature metro areas themselves.
Some satellite cities that are particularly close or well connected to their larger neighbors and/or have their own historic downtown may also qualify as the uptown variety of edge cities, but the terms are not synonymous.
Multi-polar cities
In some cases, large metropolitan areas have multiple centers of close-to-equal importance. These multi-polar cities are often referred to as
- Satellite cities are clearly much less important than the larger central city around which they are located, while the various nodes of multi-polar cities are much closer to each other in importance.
- Satellite cities are often separated from the central city by a substantial belt of rural or suburban territory, while twin cities may be fully integrated in physical form.
For example,
Metropolitan areas
Conceptually, satellite cities are miniature
Examples
See also
- General
- Bedroom community
- Edge city
- List of United States urban areas
- New Urbanism
- Rural exodus
- Urban area
- Urban sprawl
- Planning
References
- ISBN 9780761928843.
- ISBN 978-0-19-860678-9.
- ISBN 9783662449585.
- ^ A, Stefan (15 March 2017). "Urban vocabulary: Satellite cities". This City Knows. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
External articles
- Graham Romeyn Taylor, Satellite Cities. A Study of Industrial Suburbs. ISBN 1-4021-6188-3
- Berger, A. S. (1978). The city: urban communities and their problems. Dubuque, Iowa: Brown.
- Carpenter, N. (1931). The sociology of city life. Longmans' social science series. New York: Longmans, Green and Co.