Anchor Books, 1991. We can no longer think of our landscape as the city and the suburbs. These emerge where major transportation arteries intersect and there is leasable office and retail space, more jobs than bedrooms, is perceived as one place and was not present 30 years ago. An example of the authentic, California-like experience of encountering such an Edge City, is peeling off a high thruway, like the Pennsylvania Turnpike, onto an arterial, like 202 at King of Prussia, northwest of downtown Philadelphia. Descending into traffic that is bumper to bumper in both directions, one swirls through mosaics of lawn and parking, punctuated by office slabs whose designers have taken the curious view of never placing windows in anything other than horizontal reflective strips.
Detours mark the yellow dust of heavy construction that seems a permanent feature of the landscape.
Tasteful signs mark corporations apparently named after Klingon warriors. Samuel G. Freedman. Harper Collins, 1993. The American City and the Evangelical Church . A Theology as Big as the City .