Satellite Towns

Prof baby Paul
Director MCAP, Jan 2020,

Town planning S6
1.Satellite cities/towns
Satellite cities
or satellite towns
 Small or medium sized cities/towns near a
large metropolis
 Partially independent from the metropolis
(economically and socially)
 Physically separated from the metropolis by
rural territory.
 Their own independent urbanized area
 Traditional downtown surrounded by inner
city neighbourhoods.
 May or may not be counted as part of the large
metropolis-
 combined statistical area
Satellite
cities or satellite towns
 Smaller municipalities that are adjacent to a
major city
 They differ from suburbs
 They have municipal governments distinct
from that of the core metropolis
 Employment bases sufficient to support their
residential populations.
Satellite
cities or satellite towns
 Conceptually, satellite cities could be self-
sufficient communities outside of their larger
metropolitan areas.
 However, functioning as part of a metropolis
 A satellite city experiences cross-commuting
(that is, residents commuting out of and
employees commuting into the city).
Satellite of Delhi
 Gurgaon
 Sonepat
Noida, short for the New Okhla Industrial
Development Authority, is a planned city
 Greater Noida
 Ghaziabad
 Faridabad
Noida (Satellite of Delhi)
Satellite of Mumbai-
examples
 Navi Mumbai
 Kalyan-Dombivli
 Ambernath
2.Suburb
 An area on the edge of a large town or city

where people who work
in the town or city often live
Suburb
 Mixed-use or residential area, existing either

as part of a city or urban area or as a separate
residential community
within commuting distance of a city.
Suburb
 United Kingdom - suburbs are located within

the administrative boundaries of cities
 Political jurisdiction- in the United States.
 Suburbs first emerged on a large scale in the
19th and 20th centuries as a result of
improved rail and road transport.
 Lower population densities than inner city
 Residents commute to central cities or
other business districts
 Lower-density
Canadian suburban
development on the
fringe of the Calgary
Region
3.CBD –Central Business
District
 A central business district (CBD) -
commercial and business centre of a city.
 City's "financial district
 "city centre" or "downtown"
Sydney - Australia's
largest CBD
CBD
 Some of the key characteristics of CBDs

 -High concentration of offices, banks,
financial institutions, and so on.
 High density and high-rise buildings.
 High land values
4.Rural/urban fringe
 The area at the very edge of the city beside

the countryside.
 Rural urban fringe is the most dynamic area
lying between the city and rural area.
 The changes at rural urban fringe depend up on
the function and size of the city.
 The shape of the fringe belt varies from city to
city, based on the physical, cultural, and
economic personality of the city.
 As the urban center expand, the fringe belt does
not remain static, it goes dynamically converted
into a rural urban fringe and then merge with
the parent urban center.
 Rural urban fringe signifies both urban and rural
characteristics.
 The way to identify the dynamic nature of fringe
area is in terms of -social, cultural, demographic
and land transformation at different time
periods.
 Urban encroachment is one of main problem
prevailing in the environment of rural urban
fringe.
 The urban impact has changed the socio-
economic and demographic profile and land use
pattern of the area
The rural–urban fringe
 Also known as the outskirts

 Rurban, peri-urban or the urban hinterland
 Landscape interface between town and
country
 The transition zone where urban and rural
uses mix and often clash.
 Interaction of urban and rural land uses.
Roads, especially motorways and bypasses
 Waste transfer stations, recycling facilities
and landfill sites
 Park and ride sites
 Airports
 Large hospitals
 Power, water and sewerage facilities
 Factories
 Large out-of-town shopping facilities, e.g. large
supermarkets
 Agricultural land uses
 Non municipal Census towns continuous to the
main city
 Revenue villages
Sydney’s Urban fringe
 Garbage and sewage dump of the city
 Water works ,farms ,burial and cremation
grounds, brick kilns,
 Relocation of city slums
 Polluting industries
 Haphazard industrial and residential
developments
 It’s the transition zone where urban and rural
areas meet, mix and sometimes clash.
 It's a manmade version of the "edge effect“
 Difference in landscape
 Wide open spaces- interspersed by urban uses.
 Major roads and bypasses in fringes
 (require large tracts of land)
 Major roads act as an artery from a city out to a
rural area.
 Motorways through the rural-urban fringe New
developments taking advantage of the
motorway.
 Motorways helps -development of nearby towns
that are linked to the needs of commuters.
Residential developments
 Housing encroaches into the rural-urban

fringe
 Small villages have grown as more people
move out of the cities to commute to work.
 Facilities such as  Require large tracts
recycling centres and of land near good
landfill sites. transport links, both
of which are
characteristics of the
rural-urban fringe.
 Recreational
 Golf courses and leisure centres have also grown
in the urban-fringe-Advantage of the good
transport links as well as the well populated
nearby towns.
Business Parks / Industrial
estates
 With land in the rural-urban fringe being
cheaper, many factories that used to be
situated in the inner city have relocated to
these areas in order to expand.
 They are also closer to transport links to allow
for export and import of goods.
Out-of-town shopping
 With large, open spaces and connections to

the motorway network, the rural-urban fringe
is often associated with big shopping centres
that are out-of-town.
 Hypermarkets also tend to be built in this
area.
Out of Town shopping
Farming
 Farming does still happen in the rural-urban

fringe, but farmers come under great
pressure to sell their land for development.
 A farmer will make far more money from a
sale if there is already planning permission for
building to occur on the land.
 NIMBY, or Nimby, is a characterisation of
opposition by residents to a proposed
development in their local area.
 It carries the connotation that such residents
are only opposing the development because
it is close to them and that they would
tolerate or support it if it were built farther
away.
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Prof baby Paul

Director MCAP, Jan 2020,

 An area on the edge of a large town or city

 Mixed-use or residential area, existing either

 United Kingdom - suburbs are located within

 Some of the key characteristics of CBDs

 The area at the very edge of the city beside

 Also known as the outskirts

 Housing encroaches into the rural-urban

 With large, open spaces and connections to

 Farming does still happen in the rural-urban

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