List of edge cities

This is a list of edge cities by continent, country and metropolitan area.

Definition

An edge city is a term coined by Joel Garreau's in his 1991 book Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, for a place in a metropolitan area, outside cities' original downtowns (thus, in the suburbs or, if within the city limits of the central city, an area of suburban density), with a large concentration of jobs, office space, and retail space. 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 m²) of leasable office space
  • has 600,000 square feet (56,000 m²) or more of leasable retail space
  • has more jobs than bedrooms
  • is perceived by the population as one place
  • was nothing like a "city" as recently as 30 years ago. As Garreau stated, "[then] it was just bedrooms, if not cow pastures."[2]

List by country and metropolitan area

This list is incomplete. You can help by expanding it with entries that meet the criteria and that reference a reliable source. Note: "Emerging 1991" indicated that Garreau assessed this area as an emerging edge city in his 1991 book.

Montreal

Toronto

Santiago

Paris

Seoul

Zona Río, largest commercial area in Tijuana, master-planned in the 1980s

Monterrey

Guadalajara

Mexico City

Tijuana

  • Zona Río: built in the 1980s and the city's new commercial center, the Zona Río and contiguous Agua Caliente submarkets had, in 2016, a total of 136,102 square metres (1,464,990 sq ft) of office space, in addition to having the city's largest concentration of retail, hospitality, and other commercial facilities, and hospitals.[7]

Istanbul

Levent skyline seen from the Bosphorus
Maslak skyline (2007)
View of Levent and beyond from Istanbul Sapphire mall

The historic city center is in Fatih and contains historic sites, the Grand Bazaar and adjacent wholesale/retail districts, but is not a modern "central business district" in that it does not have modern retail formats, dense residential and hotel towers, etc. These can be found in the following edge cities with concentrations of office space, malls, residential towers, entertainment and educational facilities, hospitals, etc.:[8]

London

Skyline of Buckhead, Atlanta

Atlanta

Austin

Baltimore

Birmingham

Boston

Charlotte

Chicago

Cleveland

Detroit

Kansas City

Aerial view of the South Coast Plaza–John Wayne Airport edge city: Irvine Business Complex (top), John Wayne Airport runway (upper center), South Coast Metro buildings (lower center) and below, the South Coast Plaza mall

Greater Los Angeles

Miami/Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood

Minneapolis

Nashville

New York City

Philadelphia

Raleigh/Durham (Research Triangle)

Sacramento

San Diego

San Francisco Bay Area

East:

South:

San Juan

Bayamón

Caguas

Carolina

Cataño

Guaynabo

St. Louis

Tampa/St Petersburg

Washington, DC

in Howard County, Maryland:

in Montgomery County, Maryland:

in Prince George's County, Maryland[1]

in Arlington County, Virginia:


in Alexandria, Virginia:

  • Old Town Alexandria[1]
  • I-395 corridor (emerging 1991)[1]
  • Eisenhower Valley area (emerging 1991)[1]
Aerial view of Tysons, Virginia

in Fairfax County, Virginia:

Emerging edge cities in Virginia, as of 1991:

References

  1. Chapter 11: "The List: Edge Cities Coast to Coast" in Garreau, Joel (1991). Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. Anchor Books. pp. 425–438. ISBN 0-385-42434-5.
  2. Garreau 1991, p. 7.
  3. Coffey, William J. (1994). The evolution of Canada's metropolitan economies. Institute for Research on Public Policy. p. 95. ISBN 0-88645-155-8.
  4. Garreau, Joel, Edge City, Chapter 7: Texas
  5. http://usj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/9/1725
  6. "mega-projects like Santa Fe and Interlomas in Mexico City" in Mexico Business, Volume 4, Issues 1-3. Mexico Business Publishing Group. 1997. p. 23. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  7. Reporte de Mercado de Oficinas: Tijuana (Tijuana office market report) (PDF). Colliers International. November 2016.
  8. Istanbul Office Market Overview Q1 2014 (PDF). Property Investment Consultancy. 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  9. https://www.officespace.com/ga/brookhaven/filter/zoom=12.785234353479845,lng=-84.3275352323414,lat=33.840981354712696
  10. https://loopnet.com
  11. https://commercialcafe.com/
  12. http://johnscreekadvantage.org/index.php/site_selection/technology_park_atlanta
  13. Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture. John Wiley & Sons. 2007. ISBN 0-471-67951-8.
  14. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-12-30. Retrieved 2008-01-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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  16. The Corporate Grove Office, Industrial, Commercial Real Estate Buffalo Grove, Illinois
  17. Lincolnshire Corporate Center Office, Industrial, Commercial Real Estate Lincolnshire, Illinois
  18. Major Employers
  19. Business Park, Office Industrial Warehouse Space For Sale Lease Vernon Hills, Illinois - Commercial Real Estate
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  22. Great Place to Live and Work or Play
  23. http://www.cityofelgin.org/DocumentView.asp?DID=178
  24. http://www.hamiltonpartners.com/location_overview.php?region=IL&type=office&id=43
  25. Garreau, Joel (1991). Edge City. pp. 262–3. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  26. "The City of Franklin, Tennessee" (PDF). Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  27. Southeastern Pennsylvania Office Plan, March 2015
  28. Garreau, Joel (1991). Edge City. p. 436. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  29. ""San Diego submarkets Q1 2019", Avison Young". Archived from the original on 2019-07-02. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
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