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edge city
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edge city
n.
A sizeable commercial center offering a mixture of employment, shopping, and entertainment and serving a primarily suburban area.

[After Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, title of a 1991 book by American writer Joel Garreau.]


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This formula -- high-end residential buildings adjacent to the point of departure -- is so simple it is almost obvious, especially now as the inflated real estate market in Manhattan forces people to live in edge cities like Yonkers.
Kaplan, a contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly, travels to the decaying ghettos of the Midwest, the prosperous edge cities of Southern California, the rough-edged towns of central and northern Mexico, the sparsely populated (and rapidly Mexifying) Southwest, the equally sparse (and rapidly emptying) Great Plains, and, finally, the lush Northwest, the area he finds most promising.
Moreover, the urban landscape itself is changing, as seen in the emergence of huge edge cities with multiple centers of population and world cities linked together by sophisticated new communications technology.
 
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