Edge City: Life on the New Frontier

摘要: We Americans are going through the most radical change in a century how we build our world, and of us don't even know it. From coast to coast, every metropolis that is growing doing so by sprouting strange new kinds places: Edge Cities. Most now spend entire lives around these Cities, yet barely recognize them for what they are. That's because look nothing like old downtowns; meet none preconceptions constitutes city. This book explains Cities dramatically changing way live lives--our homes, transportation, jobs, social lives. Everything examined, from jobs generate whether will ever be good places fall love or hold Fourth July parade. challenged reconsider who, exactly, A glossary provided. Among its many definitions following: pavement deficiency - pothole; pedestrian walkway sidewalk; street furniture everything exposed weather put there hand man, not counting roads, buildings, plants; streetscape road on which sufficient design review has been expended such Street Furniture, Signage, Luminaires all match and/or festooned with flags; supercommuter person whose round trip work exceeds hundred miles each day.