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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.
A satellite village is a term for one or more settlements that have arisen within the outskirts of a larger one. Normally people would live in a satellite village, while they worked in the city. Normally people would live in a satellite village, while they worked in the city.
Petaling Jaya (Malaysian: [pətalɪŋ dʒaja]), colloquially referred to as "PJ", is a city in Petaling District, in the state of Selangor, Malaysia.Originally developed as a satellite township for Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, it is part of the Greater Kuala Lumpur area.
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.
Kolkata West International City is a satellite township development of Kolkata, located at Salap [2] in Howrah district. The project is under construction in the form of a joint-venture between KMDA and Singapore-based conglomerate [3] Universal Success Group (USEL). [4]
A well-planned township was developed during the early 1980s to the north of the city by the Karnataka Housing Board and is identified by several names like 'Yelahanka Upanagara', 'Yelahanka Satellite Town', 'Yelahanka New Town' or simply 'Housing Board'. Yelahanka New Town is 30 km (19 mi) far from Trifecta Esplanade, Belathur.
A township in some states of the United States is a small geographic area. [1]The term is used in three ways. A survey township is simply a geographic reference used to define property location for deeds and grants as surveyed and platted by the United States General Land Office (GLO).
Bramalea, Canada's first satellite city was developed in Chinguacousy Township beginning in the 1960s just east of the-then separate Town of Brampton. [ 2 ] The Chinguacousy name lives on in present-day Brampton, including Chinguacousy Park , Chinguacousy Road, the Chinguacousy Concert Band, and Chinguacousy Secondary School (many places that ...