Beyond Edge Cities

Beyond Edge Cities
ISBN-10
1134827059
ISBN-13
9781134827053
Category
Architecture
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2013-05-13
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
William M. Bowen, Yosra Amara, Richard D. Bingham

Description

In his influential 1991 book Edge City, Joel Garreau argued that every American city "is growing in the fashion of Los Angeles, with multiple urban cores". He named these cores "edge cities" because they perform all of the city functions, but rise in places that were farmlands or villages only decades ago, far from the old downtowns. This new book expands and clarifies Garreau's pioneering concept as it develops a comprehensive theory of edge city growth and functions. The contributors draw on their expertise as geographers, political scientists, economics planners, and sociologists to offer a wide range of insights and analyses.

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