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[quote=Anonymous]Baltimore and to a lesser extent Frederick, Annapolis, Leesburg, and Fredericksburg, are satellite cities/towns of DC. If you're feeling really generous I'd include Hagerstown, Martinsburg, and Winchester. Well, Baltimore is sort of like a twin city of DC, or maybe a younger by 7-8 years sister city.

A satellite town differs from an exurb in that: (1) it had its own separate history and existence before the greater DC blob came along, (2) it has its own set of suburbs (sometimes within the boundaries of the official city) and commuting into town flow, (3) it has its own downtown, and (4) has some amount of rural area between it and the larger city. Of course given the pattern of development, one can argue some of these former satellites has become fully a part of the greater DC blob.

An edge city is something like Tysons, Reston, or Columbia, an area that has significant employment base, but no historic downtown area or separate municipal government.

An exurb is an area, usually wealthy, whose primary industry is "sending people to the nearby city for employment." Stafford has more exurban characteristics than Loudoun, due to Loudoun's greater proximity to job centers (and greater presence of jobs within Loudoun's borders).

Of course all these traditional definitions mush in together as employment bases migrate out of the city and into areas once known as exurbs, new edge cities get created (witness the rise of Fair Lakes, Fairfax Corner, etc.), and working from home becomes more accepted/common (except at Yahoo).

Glad to have muddied the waters a little bit more. [/quote]

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