Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
by Charles Montgomery · 12 Nov 2013 · 432pp · 124,635 words
masse to freeway-fed business parks and megamalls, Washington Post reporter Joel Garreau dubbed these new agglomerations “edge cities.” But urban life has now been stretched to such an extent that suburbia, exurbia, and edge cities together form a distinct system that has transformed the way that entire city-regions function. This is the
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three decades: Dunham-Jones, Ellen, “New Urbanism’s Subversive Marketing,” in Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, ed. Andrew Blauvelt (Minneapolis: Walker Arts Center, 2008). “edge cities”: Garreau, Joel, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (New York: Doubleday, 1991). commuters escaping high home prices: Roberts, Ronnie, “Southwest Stockton, Calif., Neighborhood Attracts Commuters,” The Record
USA Travel Guide
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scenery. Heading south, visit Mt Rainier National Park , with superb hiking and relaxing inns nestled beneath the snow-covered peak. Continue on to the cutting-edge city of Portland , known for its sprawling parks, environmentally minded residents and progressive urbanism – plus food carts, coffeehouse culture and great nightlife to boot. After your
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
by Jeff Speck · 13 Nov 2012 · 342pp · 86,256 words
Zyberk & Company (DPZ) Dumbaugh, Eric Duranton, Gilles Durning, Alan Dwell (magazine) Earth Day 2007 EcoDensity (Vancouver, B.C., initiative) Economist, The (magazine) EcoPass (Boulder, Colo.) Edge City (Garreau) “edge effect” Ehrenhalt, Alan electric cars Elephant in the Bedroom, The: Automobile Dependence and Denial (Hart and Spivak) El Nasser, Haya Emanuel, Rahm Emerson
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, sprawl poster child Tysons Corner, Virginia—straight from the cover of Joel Garreau’s book Edge City—earns an impressive 87. This puts it two points ahead of my own U Street neighborhood in Washington, D.C., even though half my neighbors
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of the new station-area developments contain high density, not one of them has taken the form of a walkable neighborhood. Most are the conventional edge-city conglomerations of towers and parking lots, with nary an intimate street in sight. ●Charles Hales’s presentation at Rail-Volution, October 18, 2011. The “host
State of Emergency: The Way We Were
by Dominic Sandbrook · 29 Sep 2010 · 932pp · 307,785 words
in the Twentieth Century, p. 58. 58. The Times, 18 March 1970, 24 March 1972; Mark Clapson, A Social History of Milton Keynes: Middle England/Edge City (London, 2004), pp. 45–6, 54, 58, 65. 59. Clapson, A Social History of Milton Keynes, pp. 111–12; Daily Telegraph, 6 July 1974; Christopher
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the Twentieth Century (2001), while Mark Clapson’s books Invincible Green Suburbs, Brave New Towns (1998) and A Social History of Milton Keynes: Middle England/Edge City (2004) are terrific on suburbia. On pop music, see Barney Hoskyns, Glam! Bowie, Bolan and the Glitter Rock Revolution (1998), as well as Dave Harker
Straphanger
by Taras Grescoe · 8 Sep 2011 · 428pp · 134,832 words
for most of its history been a slow-motion Ponzi scheme based on the conversion of vast tracts of former ranch lands into a centerless edge city of endless suburbia, with minimal provision for culture or public space. While a city like New York or Chicago can bank on commuters riding trains
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—out to where most of us have lived and shopped for two generations. That has led to the rise of Edge City.” In his book of the same name, Garreau identified two hundred edge cities in the United States, among them Virginia’s Tyson’s Corner, California’s Silicon Valley, New Jersey’s Metropark
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tended to be low. By the mid-’80s, twice as many people worked in manufacturing in the suburbs as in central cities. Thanks to the edge city, the typical commute was no longer from a suburb to a central city skyscraper, but to an office park at the intersection of two freeways
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office park’s location, Garreau found, was usually the location of its CEO’s country club. Written in the techno-booster prose of the ‘90s, Edge City makes for comical reading today. “There is no petrochemical analyst around who thinks there is any supply-and-demand reason—other than war—that the
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has kept this system in a recession is amazing, and suggests how hungry people here are for ways out of sprawl. But in an outsized edge city, where offices and factories are as decentralized as residential neighborhoods, it looked to me as if a single light-rail line was bound to be
Suburban Nation
by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck · 14 Sep 2010 · 321pp · 85,267 words
. This perception is generally justified: in most American cities, the worst traffic is to be found not downtown but in the surrounding suburbs, where an “edge city” chokes highways that were originally built for lighter loads. In newer cities such as Phoenix and Atlanta, where there is not much of a downtown
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Bender. “How Bad Transportation Decisions Affect the Quality of People’s Lives.” Surface Transportation Policy Project Progress IX:2 (May 1999): 4-7. Garreau, Joel. Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. New York: Anchor, 1991. Gerstenzang, James. “Cars Make Suburbs Riskier than Cities, Study Says.” Los Angeles Times, April 15, 1996
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by Tom Wolfe · 1 Jan 1968 · 224pp · 91,918 words
and the Pranksters'. It takes a rare kind. Because always comes the moment when it's time to take the Prankster circus further on toward Edge City. And always at that point some good souls are startled: Hey, wait! Like Ralph Gleason with his column in the Chronicle and his own clump
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it—Shazam!—juice it up to what it's already aching to be: 327,000 horsepower, a whole superhighway long and soaring, screaming on toward ... Edge City, and ultimate fantasies, current and future ... Billy Batson said Shazam! and turned into Captain Marvel. Jay Garrick inhaled an experimental gas in the research lab
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dead center, out of the plump little game of being ersatz daring and ersatz alive, the middle-class intellectual's game, and move out to ... Edge City ... where it was scary, but people were whole people. And if drugs were what unlocked the doors and enabled you to do this thing and
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the White Smocks would never in a million years comprehend where he had actually been ... which was where they all were now, also known as Edge City ... Back in Kesey's log house in La Honda, all sitting around in the evening in the main room, it's getting cool outside, and
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little action, moving the plot from out of deadass snug harbor. There's a hell of a scene going for you, bub, out here in Edge City. But don't even stop there— —and all those things are keeping us out of the present, Kesey is saying, out of our own world
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the only one to see it—I never thought such colors—" In short, zonked out of their ever-loving gourds, man, and heading out toward... Edge City, absolutely, and we're truly synched tonight. —but no water spouts of Académie Française cherubim and water babies here, and no reverent toga-linen-flapping
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a lot of things into synch. Outlaws, by definition, were people who had moved off of dead center and were out in some kind of Edge City. The beauty of it was, the Angels had done it like the Pranksters, by choice. They had become outlaws first— to explore, muvva—and then
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love in the possession of God, ecstatics flooding themselves with Krishna through sexual orgies or plunging into the dinners of the Bacchanalia, Christians off in Edge City through gnostic onanism or the Heart of Jesus or the Child Jesus with its running sore—or— THE ACID TESTS And suddenly Kesey sees that
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stay away from the Trips Festival or he was in for it, but the whole thing was miles beyond in-for-it, out towards old Edge City, in fact. Kesey left Municipal Court in San Francisco on January 20 with Mountain Girl and Stewart Brand and onto the whole bus full of
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comic latino cops—until the train picks up speed and he lies battened down to the top of the car heading off to somebody's Edge City somewhere. Which turns out to be Guadalajara. He has no money on him, no grass, no nothing. He heads for the inevitable mariachi square, hunkers
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panicked the hip world. The Angels were too freaking real. Outlaws? they were outlaws by choice, from the word go, all the way out in Edge City. Furthur! The hip world, the vast majority of the acid heads, were still playing the eternal charade of the middle-class intellectuals—Behold my wings
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murmurs in the heart, they're—the TV crews are pissed, too. Snotty dope-head kids! ... Coverage is a pain in the ass here in Edge City. Can't do with it, can't do without it—a grand hassle in the making— "... For a year we've been in the Garden
The Diamond Age
by Neal Stephenson · 2 May 2000 · 611pp · 186,716 words
kitsch. Each time the density began to wane and he thought he must be reaching the edge of the city, he would come to another edge city of miniature three-story strip malls and it would begin again. But as the day went on, he truly did approach the limit of the
City: Urbanism and Its End
by Douglas W. Rae · 15 Jan 2003 · 537pp · 200,923 words
service—some trains ran faster in 1946 than today—and if New Haven can provide the downtown amenities required by commuters (to Manhattan, or to edge-city places like Stamford), then the competitiveness of New Haven’s housing will make itself felt. The urbanist city was built upon its export industries, which
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