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    Edge City

    Life on the New Frontier

    Author Joel Garreau
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    $22.00 US
    Knopf | Anchor
    On sale Sep 01, 1992 | 576 Pages | 9780385424349
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    First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in a hundred years in how they live, work, and play-Edge Cities. Joel Garreau spent four years exploring America's Edge Cities-the communities consisting of corporate headquarters, fitness centers, and shopping plazas, of single-family homes, of freeways, jetways, and jogging paths that are sprouting up in every expanding metropolis in America. Garreau explains how these cities are changing our lives in countless ways, many of them elemental and profound. He examines everything from the kinds of jobs Edge Cities generate to whether they will ever be good places in which to fall in love or hold a Fourth of July parade to how they reflect the perpetually unfinished American business of reinventing ourselves. A sweeping and important book.
    Joel Garreau, a Washington Post staff writer, is the author of the bestselling The Nine Nations of North America. He is also a principal in The Edge City Group, an organization dedicated to making better communities out of Edge Cities nationwide. View titles by Joel Garreau
    "Readable... a fascinating transcontinental tour... Mr. Garreau has the ability to categorize and clarify trends before they are apparent to the rest of us. His instincts are sharp, and his arguments are often persuasive...Edge City... is a provocative introduction to demographic and business patterns that are likely to becom more important as the twenty-first century edges nearer." -- New York Times Book Review.

    "Superb reporting." -- The Wall Street Journal.

    "Fascinating... no one has explained the geographical, economic and sociological forces that have produced these 'new downtowns' as well as Garreau." -- Washington Post.

    "Edge cities are America's next urban frontier, and Garreau's book is the best new guide to the territory." -- Plain Dealer.

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    First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in a hundred years in how they live, work, and play-Edge Cities. Joel Garreau spent four years exploring America's Edge Cities-the communities consisting of corporate headquarters, fitness centers, and shopping plazas, of single-family homes, of freeways, jetways, and jogging paths that are sprouting up in every expanding metropolis in America. Garreau explains how these cities are changing our lives in countless ways, many of them elemental and profound. He examines everything from the kinds of jobs Edge Cities generate to whether they will ever be good places in which to fall in love or hold a Fourth of July parade to how they reflect the perpetually unfinished American business of reinventing ourselves. A sweeping and important book.

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    Joel Garreau, a Washington Post staff writer, is the author of the bestselling The Nine Nations of North America. He is also a principal in The Edge City Group, an organization dedicated to making better communities out of Edge Cities nationwide. View titles by Joel Garreau

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    "Readable... a fascinating transcontinental tour... Mr. Garreau has the ability to categorize and clarify trends before they are apparent to the rest of us. His instincts are sharp, and his arguments are often persuasive...Edge City... is a provocative introduction to demographic and business patterns that are likely to becom more important as the twenty-first century edges nearer." -- New York Times Book Review.

    "Superb reporting." -- The Wall Street Journal.

    "Fascinating... no one has explained the geographical, economic and sociological forces that have produced these 'new downtowns' as well as Garreau." -- Washington Post.

    "Edge cities are America's next urban frontier, and Garreau's book is the best new guide to the territory." -- Plain Dealer.

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