Edge Cities Have Lost Their Edge

Are edge cities just a "passing phenomenon?"

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April 19, 2003, 7:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Edge cities challenged the notion that the benefits of density could be achieved only in traditional downtowns. Sure, many of them developed into soulless cultural wastelands plagued by endemic traffic jams. But Garreau's point was that edge cities were the wave of the future, a natural evolution of the urban idea in response to changing economics, technologies and lifestyles."

Thanks to Jennifer LeFurgy

FULL STORY: Edge Cities -- Final Frontier, or Burbs in Flux?

Friday, April 18, 2003 in The Washington Post

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