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9780385424349

Edge City Life on the New Frontier

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  • ISBN13:

    9780385424349

  • ISBN10:

    0385424345

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-09-01
  • Publisher: Anchor

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION PIONEERS, FRONTIERS, AND THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY xix
1 THE SEARCH FOR THE FUTURE INSIDE OURSELVES Life on the New Frontier
1(16)
2 NEW JERSEY Tomorrowland
17(52)
3 BOSTON Edge City Limits
69(30)
4 DETROIT The Automobile, Individualism, and Time
99(40)
5 ATLANTA The Color of Money
139(40)
6 PHOENIX Shadow Government
179(30)
7 TEXAS Civilization
209(52)
8 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Community
261(42)
9 THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Soul
303(40)
10 WASHINGTON The Land
343(80)
I Manassas: Long Ago and Far Away
347(2)
II Present at Creation
349(13)
III The Machine, the Garden, and Paradise
362(11)
IV Pilgrim's Progress: Boom
373(16)
V But What About the Land?
389(13)
VI The Final Battle
402(21)
11 THE LIST Edge Cities, Coast to Coast
423(18)
12 THE WORDS Glossary of a New Frontier
441(20)
13 THE LAWS How We Live
461(12)
Acknowledgments 473(6)
Suggested Readings 479(30)
Notes 509(26)
Index 535

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