Edge City: Life on the New Frontier

Joel Garreau

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jul 27, 2011 - Social Science - 576 pages

First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City.

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EDGE CITY: Life on the New Frontier

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After the suburbanization of America in the 50's, when people followed new highways out to new one-family homes, came the malling of America in the 60's and 70's and then, in the 80's, the high- rise ...

Edge city: life on the new frontier

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Garreau's rather indifferently written tome, originally produced as a series of Washington Post articles, describes the phenomenon of Edge Cities that have sprung up in various areas of the nation ...

Contents

• The Color of Money: 139
• 6: 154
• 7: 209
• 9: 262
• 2: 275
• 10: 333
• Present at Creation: 349
• III: 362
• V: 389
• VI: 402
• 11: 420
• 12: 439
• 13: 450
• Acknowledgments: 473
• Suggested Readings: 479
• 3: 506
• Notes: 509
• 4: 514
• Index: 535

About the author

Joel Garreau, a Washington Post staff writer, is the author of the bestselling The Nine Nations of North America. He is also a principal in The Edge City Group, an organization dedicated to making better communities out of Edge Cities nationwide.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Edge City: Life on the New Frontier
• Author: Joel Garreau
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011
• ISBN: 0307801942, 9780307801944
• Length: 576 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development; Social Science / Sociology / Urban