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Originally, Garreau defined edge cities in the North American context, though he gave some examples outside North America. To qualify under Garreau's rules, an edge city: [1] has five million or more square feet (465,000 m 2) of leasable office space; has 600,000 square feet (56,000 m 2) or more of leasable retail space; has more jobs than bedrooms
Today, many edge cities have plans for densification, sometimes around a walkable downtown-style core, often with a push for more accessibility by transit and bicycle, and addition of housing in denser, urban-style neighborhoods within the edge city. For example, at Tysons, in the Washington, D.C., metro area, the plan remains to see the city ...
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Edge cities by country (4 C) Pages in category "Edge cities" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Although the name Randstad is often translated into English as "edge city" or "border city", a more accurate translation would be "rim city". The Dutch name was coined in 1938 by KLM founder Albert Plesman who, while flying over the region, used it to describe a strip of cities at the rim of a large green agricultural area (the Green Heart). [5]
The following is a list of the largest satellite cities worldwide, with over 500,000 people. A satellite city is defined as subordinate to a central city in a business or infrastructure sense, and it may or may not have more population than the central city due to arbitrary municipal definitions. Excluded are transborder agglomerations.
Edge cities in the San Diego metropolitan area (8 P) T. Edge cities in the Tampa Bay area (1 P) This page was last edited on 4 November 2022, at 09:37 (UTC). Text ...
This is a list of planned cities (sometimes known as planned communities or new towns) by country. Additions to this list should be cities whose overall form (as opposed to individual neighborhoods or expansions) has been determined in large part in advance on a drawing board, or which were planned to a degree which is unusual for their time and place.