The phrase "dormitory suburbs" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to residential areas on the outskirts of a city, where people typically live and commute to work in the city center. Example: Many young families are attracted to the quiet and spacious homes in the dormitory suburbs, where they can raise their children away from the hustle and bustle of the city.
Our villages are dormitory suburbs now.
"Garden cities were to be self-sufficient communities, not dormitory suburbs," he says.
Or is it just a rebrand for unsustainable, sprawling dormitory suburbs?
Adjacent towns serve as dormitory suburbs, and many people commute to the city, adding to the traffic problem.
The outer areas are dominated by dormitory suburbs interspersed with a scattering of cantonments (military quarters), agricultural tracts, saltworks, airports, railway stations, and marshaling yards.
Since Levitt's day, they note, many old dormitory suburbs have changed into economically viable, decentralised cities where people live, work and play.
Vienne serves as a dormitory suburb for Lyon.
In 1975 Wattenscheid, a neighbouring city, was united with Bochum, and it serves to some extent as a dormitory suburb for the adjacent industrial complexes of Gelsenkirchen and Essen.
Travelling Beijing's subway end to end, from the south-western dormitory suburb of Suzhuang to north-east Fengbo, where cranes loom over half-constructed blocks, takes five changes and almost three hours – but very little cash.
His firm proposed the upper storeys of a converted office block in Tor Tre Teste, a dormitory suburb on the desolate outskirts of Rome, and proposed an annual rent of almost €1.3m (£930,000).
"Staff [from different sects] who used to spend the evenings together laughing no longer talk to each other," says a banker.Built in the 1980s as a model of cross-sectarian integration, the dormitory suburb of Hamad Town, 18km (11 miles) south-west of Manama, the capital, now seethes with tension.
