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edge city

American  

noun

  1. an area on the outskirts of a city having a high density of office buildings, shopping malls, hotels, etc.

Etymology

Origin of edge city

An Americanism dating back to 1985–90

Example Sentences

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We’ve had the industrial revolution, the skyscraper, the suburbs, the edge city, the superstar tech city, and now this.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2022

At the time, Tysons Corner was the embodiment of what the author Joel Garreau called an edge city — a concentration, outside a big city, of daytime shopping, entertainment and business that emptied at night.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2022

Traffic-choked Tysons Corner, on the verge of a do-over After eight years of groundwork, a radical plan to remake the edge city is becoming real.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2013

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