Edge City
1)A book written in 1991 by Joel Garreau
2)A "Suburb" with a large commercial district that takes on the identity of the metropolitan center, along with all others within a particular MSA/CMSA
3)A place which is dependent on the automobile, usually growing up around a mall, freeway exit, and several office parks
4)A place which often was nothing but forest and or farmland prior to 1965, or at most a small town
5)A place where there are often surface parking lots as far as the eye can see
6)The setting of the 1994 Jim Carey box office feature presentation "The Mask." A city plagued by crime and pollution
7)A nationally-syndicated comic strip created by Terry and Patty LeBan about a Jewish American family "juggling relationships, careers and traditions at the fast pace of modern life"
2)A "Suburb" with a large commercial district that takes on the identity of the metropolitan center, along with all others within a particular MSA/CMSA
3)A place which is dependent on the automobile, usually growing up around a mall, freeway exit, and several office parks
4)A place which often was nothing but forest and or farmland prior to 1965, or at most a small town
5)A place where there are often surface parking lots as far as the eye can see
6)The setting of the 1994 Jim Carey box office feature presentation "The Mask." A city plagued by crime and pollution
7)A nationally-syndicated comic strip created by Terry and Patty LeBan about a Jewish American family "juggling relationships, careers and traditions at the fast pace of modern life"
Example:
The edge city as Garreau describes it is fundamentally impossible without the automobile. It was not until automobile ownership surged in the 1950s, after four decades of fast steady growth, that the edge city became truly possible. Whereas virtually every American central business district (CBD) or secondary downtown that developed around non-motorized transportation or the streetcar has a pedestrian-friendly grid pattern of relatively narrow streets, most edge cities instead have a hierarchical street arrangement centered around pedestrian-hostile arterial roads.
-Fom a certain popular online encyclopedia which anyone can edit
The edge city as Garreau describes it is fundamentally impossible without the automobile. It was not until automobile ownership surged in the 1950s, after four decades of fast steady growth, that the edge city became truly possible. Whereas virtually every American central business district (CBD) or secondary downtown that developed around non-motorized transportation or the streetcar has a pedestrian-friendly grid pattern of relatively narrow streets, most edge cities instead have a hierarchical street arrangement centered around pedestrian-hostile arterial roads.
-Fom a certain popular online encyclopedia which anyone can edit