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4 unusual facts about edge city


Edge city

Garreau's classic example of an edge city is the information technology center, Tysons Corner, Virginia, west of Washington, D.C. As recently as the end of World War II, it was a country crossroads, but it now has more office space than downtown Atlanta.

Calls by former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for construction of a Wilshire Boulevard extension of the Purple Line subway led many transportation planners and Century City occupants and neighbors to call for a southerly routing of the extension that would pass by Century City on its northern leg.

New Center and the Miracle Mile section of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles are considered the earliest automobile-oriented urban forms, although built with radically different purposes in mind (New Center as an office park, the Miracle Mile as a retail strip).

Hickory Grove, Adams County, Illinois

Hickory Grove is an unincorporated community and Edge city in Ellington Township, Adams County, Illinois, United States.


Street hierarchy

Use of the street hierarchy is a nearly universal characteristic of the "edge city", a roughly post-1970 form of urban development exemplified by places such as Tysons Corner, Virginia, and Schaumburg, Illinois.


see also

Terry LaBan

In 2001, King Features Syndicate syndicated Edge City, a daily comic strip drawn by LaBan and co-written with his wife, Patty LaBan.