Edge City: Life on the New Frontier

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Edge City: Life on the New Frontier is a nonfiction book by Joel Garreau that analyzes the rise of suburban business and commercial hubs as a transformative new form of urban development in late 20th-century America.

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instanceOf nonfiction book
sociology book
urban studies book
author Joel Garreau NERFINISHED
authorEmployerAtTimeOfWriting The Washington Post NERFINISHED
authorOccupation futurist
journalist
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
defines edge city as a concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional downtown
describedAs influential work on edge cities
describesAs new form of urban development
examines economic restructuring of American cities
relationship between highways and development
social implications of suburban growth
focusesOn metropolitan peripheries
suburban business hubs
suburban commercial hubs
genre nonfiction
hasImpactOn debates about suburbanization in the United States
discussions of postwar metropolitan form
hasPart case studies of U.S. metropolitan areas
hasSubjectArea American studies NERFINISHED
urban geography
urban planning
urban sociology
influenced popular understanding of suburban office clusters
urban planning discourse in the 1990s
language English
mainSubject edge city NERFINISHED
late 20th-century American cities
suburban development
urban development
urban sprawl
mediaType print
notableConcept automobile-oriented development
polycentric metropolitan structure
shift of jobs from downtowns to suburbs
publicationYear 1991
publisher Doubleday
relatedWork The Nine Nations of North America NERFINISHED
setIn United States metropolitan regions
targetAudience general readers interested in cities
policy makers
scholars of urban studies
urban planners
timePeriodDescribed late 20th century

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Joel Garreau notableWork Edge City: Life on the New Frontier