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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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Little to see therefore of Edge City shopping malls or PoMo office buildings; little to read of the important cultural influence of, say, Meier and Eisenman or of Holl, Williams & Tsien, Morphosis and Moss.
All American: Innovation in American Architecture. (US Arises) by Ryan, Raymund / The Architectural Review
Though interesting, these sections owe a debt to earlier works, such as James Howard Kunstler's Geography of Nowhere and Joel Garreau's Edge City.
Going Shopping: Consumer Choices and Community Consequences. ... by Dempsey, Joe / Washington Monthly
``Revenge of The Mask'' calls for the mask to be split in two and follow Stanley Ipkiss around Edge City.
RUMORED SEQUELS INCLUDE EVERYTHING BUT `ISHTAR 2' by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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