Beyond Edge Cities (Contemporary Urban Affairs)

Beyond Edge Cities

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Also includes four maps. By John Betancur , Douglas Gills. Edited by John Betancur , Douglas Gills. This book examines both successful and unsuccessful efforts at revitalizing low-income neighborhoods and features case studies on a wide range of American cities.

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This collection evaluates the various strategies that different cities have used when attempting to economically revitalize downtown areas. Hardback — Routledge Contemporary Urban Affairs. This book discusses the revitalization of decayed inner-city neighborhoods. It explores the role of social capital in stabilizing and turning around distressed communities, and it highlights the roles that local actors can and do play in the revitalization process.

The Art of Revitalization takes…. Bingham , William M. Bowen , Yosra Amara. Keiser , Katherine Underwood First published in Reese , Urban Center Staff First published in Wages, Race, Skills and Space: Typically, these small towns and cities were suburbs. Many terms are used to refer to edge cities, such as: They may even serve to be extensions of larger metropolitan cities such as the relationship between Century City and Los Angeles.

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Edge cities may turn out to have been only a 20th-century phenomenon because of their limitations. As a result, construction of medium- and high-density housing in edge cities ranges from difficult to impossible. Because most are built at automobile scale, mass transit frequently cannot serve them well.

Pedestrian access to and circulation within an edge city is impractical if not impossible, even if residences are nearby. Revitalization of edge cities may be "the major urban renewal project of the 21st century". In Western Europe, particularly in France and, Spain , the downtown has long been upscale and some suburbs banlieues for example are the slums.

While this had traditionally not been the case in the United States, where non-rural poverty has been viewed as an inner city affair, by the s, the United States started to mirror the Western European situation. For instance, much of Washington, DC has become upscale through gentrification, while suburban poor areas like Capitol Heights, Maryland have come into existence. Tysons historically known as Tysons Corner is seen as a modern prototype of an edge city. Tysons in its brief year history has been given substantial redevelopment offers for the next 20 to 30 years.

Private-sector development within the United States in combination with political groups have begun the planning process behind the redevelopment of Tysons.

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With the redevelopment process taking place there has been an aggressive push to bring in businesses to Tysons. Edge cities such as Tysons have specific regional accessibility that has been enhanced by major projects funded by federal and state governments. As for the future of Tysons, the plan remains to see the city become the downtown core of Fairfax County. The small edge cities progressively become larger with the creation of distinct plans. For many individuals the interest with edge cities lies in what they can show about new trends across city regions. Tysons is a prime example of the future of edge cities and what other small towns all around the world could become.

Despite the lessons of the American experience, in rapidly developing countries such as China and India and the United Arab Emirates , the edge city is quickly emerging as an important new development form as automobile ownership skyrockets and marginal land is bulldozed for development.

For example, the outskirts of Bangalore , India are increasingly replete with mid-rise mirrored-glass office towers set amid lush gardens and sprawling parking lots where many foreign companies have set up shop.

Dubai offers another example. The emergence of edge cities has not been without consequences to the metropolitan areas they surround. Edge cities arise from population decentralization from large major core cities and has been ongoing since the s.

Shifts in socioeconomics in metro areas, location of metro industrial areas, and labor competition between edge cities and their more central neighbors have been attributed to their development and continued expansion. There has been a considerable debate among economists as to whether "jobs follow people or people follow jobs," [23] but in the context of the edge city phenomenon, workers have been drawn from metropolitan business hubs in favor of the edge city economy. Developers of edge cities have been shown to strategically plan expansion of such business areas to draw workers away from more dense port cities and thereby keep profits from surrounding interests.

As with any city, Edge Cities go through phases of growth and redevelopment. Politics within Edge Cities are unique in that they typically revolve around developing them.

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They contribute to a "growth machine" that spreads the urbanization of the United States. Depending on the size of the settlements the modes of urban politics can change. Tysons, Virginia is an example that went through the process of development due to the county government's aggressive recruitment of businesses.

Tysons recruited businesses with the promise of growth in the future. More businesses coming in allowed for the city to grow which led to the businesses growing as well. A chain reaction was created which crafted the modern-day Tysons. This community was also an example of politics playing a role in developing an edge city. Also as a result of the rise of edge cities, more department stores, hotels, apartments, and office spaces are created.

There are more edge cities than their downtown counterparts of the same size. Garreau states one reason for the rise of edge cities is that, "Today, we have moved our means of creating wealth, the essence of urbanism - our jobs - out to where most of us have lived and shopped for two generations. That has led to the rise of Edge City. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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