edge city
Americannoun
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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