Satellite city

Last updated August 31, 2025

A satellite city or satellite town is a smaller municipality or settlement that is part of (or on the edge of) a larger metropolitan area and serves as a regional population and employment center.^[1]^[2]^[3] It differs from mere suburbs, subdivisions and especially bedroom communities in that it has employment bases sufficient to support its residential population, and conceptually, could be a self-sufficient community outside of its larger metropolitan area.^[4] However, it functions as part of a metropolis and experiences high levels of cross-commuting (that is, residents commuting out of and employees commuting into the city).^{[ citation needed ]}

References

↑ Goldfield, David (2007). Encyclopedia of American Urban History. ISBN 9780761928843.
↑ Curl, James Stevens (2006). "satellite town". A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 681. ISBN 978-0-19-860678-9.
↑ Shao, Zisheng (19 August 2015). The New Urban Area Development: A Case Study in China. Springer. ISBN 9783662449585.
↑ Gregory, Derek; Johnston, Ron, eds. (2010). The dictionary of human geography (5. ed., [Nachdr.] ed.). Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-3287-9.

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.

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[1] Goldfield, David (2007). Encyclopedia of American Urban History. ISBN 9780761928843.

[2] Curl, James Stevens (2006). "satellite town". A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 681. ISBN 978-0-19-860678-9.

[3] Shao, Zisheng (19 August 2015). The New Urban Area Development: A Case Study in China. Springer. ISBN 9783662449585.

[4] Gregory, Derek; Johnston, Ron, eds. (2010). The dictionary of human geography (5. ed., [Nachdr.] ed.). Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-3287-9.

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