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Satellite cities differ from edge cities, which are suburbs with large employment bases and cultural offerings, in that satellite cities must have a true historic downtown, a distinct independent municipal government, existed as a city prior to becoming interconnected with the larger metropolitan core, and are surrounded by a belt of rural land between themselves and the central city.
The following is a list of the largest satellite cities worldwide, with over 500,000 people. A satellite city is defined as subordinate to a central city in a business or infrastructure sense, and it may or may not have more population than the central city due to arbitrary municipal definitions. Excluded are transborder agglomerations.
Ciudad Satélite (lit. transl. Satellite City), commonly known as Satélite, is a middle-, upper-middle and upper-class area in Naucalpan, in the western part of Greater Mexico City, located some 14 km northwest of the Historic Mexico City Center.
Satellite Town, Rawalpindi, Pakistan This page was last edited on 4 July 2020, at 11:58 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. [1]The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative status, or historical significance.
By 2011, Funky Town emerged in a new T-shirt message by entrepreneur James Zametz: “Keep Fort Worth Funky.” “It’s a take on ‘Keep Austin Weird,’ because most people know what that ...
An Iranian attack on an Israeli desert air base last week as part of Tehran's unprecedented assault on the country damaged a taxiway, a satellite image analyzed by The Associated Press on Saturday ...
The word exurb (a portmanteau of extra (outside) and urban) was coined by Auguste Comte Spectorsky, in his 1955 book The Exurbanites, to describe the ring of prosperous communities beyond the suburbs, that are commuter towns for an urban area. [6]