Editing Commuting (section)

=== Suburbs ===
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Commuting has had a large impact on modern life. It has allowed cities to grow to sizes that were previously not practical, and it has led to the proliferation of suburbs. Many large cities or [[conurbation]]s are surrounded by [[commuter belt]]s, also known as [[metropolitan area]]s, [[commuter town]]s, dormitory towns, or bedroom communities.  The prototypical commuter lives in one of these areas and travels daily to work or to school in the core city.

As [[urban sprawl]] pushes further and further away from [[central business district]]s, new businesses can appear in [[edge city|outlying cities]], leading to the existence of the [[reverse commuter]] who lives in a core city but works in the suburbs, and to a type of secondary commuter who lives in a more distant [[exurb]] and works in the outlying city or [[industrial suburb]].