Edge City : life on the New Frontier. / txt
Joel Garreau.
- First Edition
- xiv, 546 p. map ; ill. ; 25 cm. book
Includes bibliographical references (p. [478]-507) and index.
CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION: PIONEERS, FRONTIERS, AND THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY xi -- 1 The search for the future inside ourselves / life on the New Frontier 1 -- 2 New Jersey / Tomorrowland 17 -- 3 Boston / Edge city limits 69 -- 4 Detroit / The Automobile, Individualism, and Time 99 -- 5 Atlanta / The color of money 139 -- 6 Phoenix / Shadow Government 179 -- 7 Texas / Civilization 209 -- 8 Southern California / Community 261b -- 9 The San Francisco bay area / Soul 303 -- 10 Washington / Hallowed Ground 343 -- I Manassas: Long ago and Far Away 347 -- II Present at creation 349 -- III The Machine, the Garden, and Paradise 362 -- IV Pilgrim’s Progress: Boom 373 -- V But what about the land 389 -- VI The final Battle 402 -- 11 The List / Edge Cities, coast to coast 423 -- 12 The words / Glossary of a New Frontier 441 -- 13 The laws / How we live 461 -- Acknowledgments 472 -- Suggested readings 478 -- Notes 508 -- Index 533 --
Includes material on the metropolitan areas of New Jersey, Boston, Detroit, Atlanta, Phoenix, Texas, Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Washington, D.C.
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Metropolitan areas--United States. Sociology urban--United States. Land use, Urban--United States. Real estate development--United States.