Talk:Edge city

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Cleveland

I removed the Cleveland examples, because none of the places listed (Amherst, Bainbridge Township, Mantua, Medina, Painesville and Stow) are edge cities. Mantua is a rural village. Painesville and Medina are old county seats blended into Cleveland's sprawl without a particularly high density of offices. Bainbridge is a low-density exurb. I'm not as familiar with Amherst and Stow, but I really doubt they have enough office space to be considered edge cities. The only places in the Cleveland area I know of that could be considered edge cities are the Cloverleaf area of Independence and the Chagrin Blvd. corridor in Shaker Heights and Beachwood. -- Mwalcoff 02:42, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of edge cities

I removed several "edge cities" from the list because they do not fit the criteria. Many of the cities listed were historical population centers that had expierienced rapid recent growth. This list is still unwieldy and I suspect contains more inappropriate entries then correct. A rigorous approach is needed or the list should be removed to prevent every suburban commercial center in the country from being added. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Miglewis (talk • contribs) 20:00, 5 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

That many in New York?

Back when Edge City was penned in 1991, there was a list in the back of the book naming the edge cities surrounding various urban centers in the United States and Canada. Under New York there were about 20-25, including emerging edge cities. According to the list on the Wikipedia page, in the fifteen-sixteen years since the book was published the New York area has curiously spawned about 45-50 more. Might someone verify that? Svalbard in winter 04:12, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New York/Pittsburgh Examples

Some of the New York examples don't fit in to the term edge cities. Alot of the examples listed were more likely bedroom communities. In addition the Oakland neighborhood in Pittsburgh is an urban neighborhood so it does not fit into the term edge city.

Accuracy

The list of edge cities is kind of sprawling out of control, as I think the above comments seem to suggest. This might seem draconian at first, but I think the best solution is to try to get a published reference calling each item on the list an "edge city", probably from someone who is an unbiased observer with some credentials. If we can't find such a reference for an item, we remove it and the burden is on people who want to add it to find proof. I think this is a reasonable way to keep this article accurate and useful. Thoughts? --W.marsh 20:53, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Origin of term.

The term Edge-City was not coined in the 80s. It appeared in the "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" and was often made reference to by the merry pranksters (apparently).