This is a list of edge cities by continent, country and metropolitan area.
Definition
An edge city is a term coined by Joel Garreau's in his 1991 book Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, for a place in a metropolitan area, outside cities' original downtowns (thus, in the suburbs or, if within the city limits of the central city, an area of suburban density), with a large concentration of jobs, office space, and retail space. Originally, Garreau defined edge cities in the North American context, though he gave some examples outside North America. To qualify under Garreau's rules, an edge city:
- has five million or more square feet (465,000 m<sup>2</sup>) of leasable office space
- has 600,000 square feet (56,000 m<sup>2</sup>) or more of leasable retail space
- has more jobs than bedrooms
- is perceived by the population as one place
- was nothing like a "city" as recently as 30 years ago. As Garreau stated, "[then] it was just bedrooms, if not cow pastures."
List by country and metropolitan area
This list is incomplete. You can help by expanding it with entries that meet the criteria and that reference a . Note: "Emerging 1991" indicated that Garreau assessed this area as an emerging edge city in his 1991 book.
Canada
Montreal
Toronto
Vancouver
Chile
Santiago
France
Paris
Korea (South)
Seoul
Mexico
Monterrey
Guadalajara
Mexico City
Tijuana
- Zona RÃÂo: built in the 1980s and the city's new commercial center, the Zona RÃÂo and contiguous Agua Caliente submarkets had, in 2016, a total of of office space, in addition to having the city's largest concentration of retail, hospitality, and other commercial facilities, and hospitals.
Turkey
Istanbul
The historic city center is in Fatih and contains historic sites, the Grand Bazaar and adjacent wholesale/retail districts, but is not a modern "central business district" in that it does not have modern retail formats, dense residential and hotel towers, etc. These can be found in the following edge cities with concentrations of office space, malls, residential towers, entertainment and educational facilities, hospitals, etc.:
United Kingdom
London
United States
Atlanta
Austin
Baltimore
Birmingham
Boston
Charlotte
Chicago
- Illinois Technology and Research Corridor incl. parts of Oak Brook, Lisle, Naperville, Aurora along the East-West Tollway, Oakbrook Terrace, Lombard
- I-94 "Lake Shore Corridor": including parts of Skokie, Northbrook, Deerfield, Buffalo Grove Lincolnshire, Vernon Hills, Lake Forest
- Golden Corridor/Northwest Corridor incl. O'Hare Airport and Schaumburg areas including parts of Rosemont, Arlington Heights, Rolling Meadows, Hoffman Estates and Woodfield Mall area near the Northwest Tollway, Elgin, Itasca
Cleveland
Denver
Detroit
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Greater Los Angeles
Miami/Fort Lauderdale/West Palm Beach
Minneapolis
Nashville
New York City
Philadelphia
Raleigh/Durham (Research Triangle)
Sacramento
San Diego
San Francisco Bay Area
East:
South:
Saint Louis
Washington, DC
in Howard County, Maryland:
in Montgomery County, Maryland:
in Prince George's County, Maryland
in Arlington County, Virginia:
in Alexandria, Virginia:
in Fairfax County, Virginia:
Emerging edge cities in Virginia, as of 1991:
References