Edge city is a term that originated in the United States for a concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional downtown or central business district, in what had previously been a suburban residential or rural area.
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Garreau argues that the edge city has become the standard form of urban growth worldwide, representing a 20th-century urban form unlike that of the 19th-century central downtown.
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Garreau's classic example of an edge city is the information technology center Tysons, Virginia, west of Washington, DC.
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Edge city cities planned around freeway interchanges have a history of suffering severe traffic problems if one of these freeways goes unbuilt.
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In particular, Century City, a pioneering 1960s edge city built on former 20th Century Fox backlot in western Los Angeles, was built with long-term plans for access via an urban rail system and the planned Beverly Hills Freeway.
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The residents of the low-density housing areas around them tend to be fiercely resistant to their outward expansion, but because their internal road networks are severely limited in capaEdge city, densification is more difficult than in the traditional grid network that characterizes traditional CBDs and secondary downtowns.
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Pedestrian access to and circulation within an edge city was perceived to be impractical if not impossible, even if residences are nearby.
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Edge city cities arise from population decentralization from large major core cities and has been ongoing since the 1960s.
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Edge city cities contribute greatly to urban development by creating new jobs by attracting workers from the metropolitan areas around it.
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Garreau describes that the edge city has a tendency to have a large service-oriented industry linked to the national economy.
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The edge city offers supplies to the local area in the form of retail facilities and consumer services.
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The edge city has a tendency to affect the surrounding areas by procuring more opportunities within the labor market.
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Edge city Cities are well suited to an economy which is known for a service-oriented market as well as sustaining major manufacturing sectors.
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Politics within Edge city Cities are unique in that they typically revolve around developing them.
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