Talk:List of edge cities

message: As I understand what's being told here as an Edge City, I can't see Canary Wharf in London fitting here, looks more to me like a normal  (albeit big) revelopment inside a city district... 
I added Rivas in Madrid... goin from 500inhabs. to 100.000 in just 30 years :S
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replies: text: If there is a source indicating it has more jobs than employed residents, feel free to add it in. --Polaron | Talk 20:54, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

text: From having personal experience with the Cool Springs area, it would honestly be one of the better examples of an "edge city" on this list. It's basically three or four consecutive freeway exits surrounded by ten-story office towers, a quite large shopping mall, many dozens of peripheral shopping/dining establishments, and very little in the way of traditional neighborhoods or single-family homes. Down the road in Murfreesboro, there's the Medical Center Parkway development which is clearly an effort to mimic Cool Springs, even if it hasn't (and probably won't) reached that level yet. It certainly fits the definition than most of the rest of this list, which are simply large suburbs or satellite anchors. (e.g. Hoboken and Yonkers are not "edge cities" of NYC.) Thunderbunny (talk) 01:25, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

message: I deleted La Jolla since it is actually part of the City of San Diego and therefore can't be a separate edge city. Places like Chula Vista and Del Mar might be better fits.
:Actually, Edge Cities quite explicitly have nothing to do with municipal boundaries. West LA, Century City, Warner Center, and Sherman Oaks are Edge Cities even though they are (mostly) within the limits of the City of Los Angeles. The John Wayne Airport - South Coast Plaza complex is an Edge City inhabiting the intersection of four independent municipalities: Santa Ana, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, and Irvine. Garreau includes La Jolla in his seminal list (he calls it "North City" and centers it around UCSD). EmergentProperty (talk) 03:51, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: San Diego

message: Based on the concern about worldwide view, maybe rename this article to "List of edge cities in the United States." YechielMan 23:15, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Am trying to fix that. I got Paris, France and Toronto, Canada up there right now, all sourced. Svalbard in winter 00:56, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of article 

message: I live in Stamford, Connecticut and though it meets some criteria such as amount of office and retail space, it is an ex-manufacturing city, chemicals are still produced there to this day and it had an urban population in the 20s and 30s, well before the 1960s definition.  Ditto for neighboring Norwalk, Connecticut and probably many other cities on this list.
:All page references (e.g. p. 113) are from Garreau's book Edge City. That said...
:According to Garreau, Stamford is an "Uptown," (p. 113) an edge city that was historically a bedroom community, so Stamford still qualifies as an edge city despite having an urban population since the 20s. When Garreau says that an edge city location "was by no means urban" (p. 425) in 1960, he means that, at that date, it didn't have a downtown befitting a city much larger. Hope this helps. Svalbard in winter 19:51, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clearer Definition 

message: :Should aerotropoli also be included in this list? It seems like they fit the criteria for an Edge City... Svalbard in winter 20:16, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: On Aerotropoli

message: :I agree with Svalbard above...people are getting "edge city" confused with "anchor city", "exurb", "suburb", etc. The unsourced entries probably need to be removed. One in particular which I removed, Camden NJ, is pretty much the exact opposite of an edge city; it was a major residential and commercial center more than 50 years ago, but today is an ultra-blighted poor city that lacks even a grocery store. People need to read Garreau's criteria before wantonly adding cities to the list. Thunderbunny 02:22, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Philadelphia cleanup

message: Many of the cities under Los Angeles are simply cities in Orange County, many of which have edge-city areas, but certainly should not be called edge cities themselves.  For example, Newport Center, surrounding the Fashion Island shopping center in Newport Beach probably fits the criteria as an edge city, but Newport Beach itself is a 100-year-old affluent suburban/beach community. I am modifying the list appropriately. 208.252.212.2 (talk) 20:38, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orange County Edge Cities 

message: Here's why:
1: Saint Pete was incorporated in 1892.
2: Its population boom was before the 1960's.
3: For a while, it was larger than Tampa
Saint Petersburg would better be described as a smaller twin city in a multiple anchor city metropolitan area, due to its founding, its population and its importance.
ColdRedRain (talk) 07:33, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saint Petersburg is NOT an edge city. 

message: Need citation for Gwinnett Place Mall. It is no larger an office/shopping district than Windward (Alpharetta) and Town Center (Kennessaw). Add citation and then re-add. Furthermore, does anyone know whether Windward and Town Center qualify Netdragon (talk) 23:38, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Atlanta 

message: Can anyone provide citations for the edge cities in Denver? I in particular would like to dispute Englewood as it is an old streetcar suburb of Denver established in 1860. ~ Mikeshoup (talk) 21:04, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Denver Area 

message: I am from the Lehigh Valley and I appreciate the efforts of a past editor. The suburbs included were hardly cities and so I had to delete my own region's section. The Lehigh Valley remains in the NYC portion and maintains an identity of its own as Pennsylvania's third-largest metro area. Heff01 (talk) 11:12, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lehigh Valley 

message: This list pretty much includes most of the cities in the bay area. There has to be some distiction. I can't see Mountain View or Palo Alto, or even Santa Clara, being edge cities because they are in the heart of Silicon Valley.2601:640:4001:266C:BD7D:357F:E872:2112 (talk) 15:39, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edge cities in sf/oakland/san jose bay area 

message: I've gone ahead and deleted Croydon from the list as it doesn't fit the criteria. It's just a handily-placed suburb that found itself with a lot of shops. Huwlepolonais2 (talk) 19:37, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Croydon 

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message: Over the years, there has been a lot of observation in this Talk page that the list of edge cities includes a lot of unsourced items, which are simply the names of the suburbs (presumably, suburbs which contain edge cities or part of edge cities). Also, there is a statement that "some of the suburbs in this list are edge cities because they qualify under other criteria" and that statement is backed up by a reference that is an entire high school geography book, which I checked and it only briefly mentions edge cities as an existent term. This list needs to go back to the original edge cities named by Garreau, plus additional entries which have a valid, reliable source stating that the edge city is a center of employment (e.g. office space) and is not part of a traditional downtown. I will go ahead and be WP:BOLD and delete the items on the list that don't qualify (actually, "comment them out", that is, hide them, but keep the source code in case it proves useful for later edits). Keizers (talk) 13:31, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed unsourced items