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An edge city is a concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional downtown or central business district, in what had previously been a suburban, residential or rural area.
Tysons, Virginia, located outside Washington, D.C., is the classic example of an 'edge city' described by Joel Garreau in Edge City: Life on the New Frontier.
La Défense, an edge city of Paris
The Rosslyn–Ballston corridor in Arlington County near Washington, D.C.
Century City, an edge city of Los Angeles
Century City
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Century City is a 176-acre neighborhood and business district in central Los Angeles, California, United States. Located on the Westside to the south of Santa Monica Boulevard around 10 miles west of
Edge city
…Edge cities planned around freeway interchanges have a history of severe traffic problems if one of these freeways goes unbuilt. In particular, Century City, a pioneering 1960s edge city built on a former 20th Century Fox backlot in western Los Angeles, was built with long-term plans for access via an urban…
A 2009 aerial view of Century City with the Fox Studio Lot visible in the lower left
Constellation Place, formerly MGM Tower, in Century City
Santa Monica Airport facing east toward Century City