Edge Cities: What Are They and What Ought to be their Future?

A Lecture for The City in Disciplinary Perspective,
Professors R. Kargon and M. Crenson, 
by
Edward C. Papenfuse, State Archivist
(April, 1996)

I. THE MAGNITUDE OF THE PROBLEM

• POPClock Projection
US Popclock Projection Documentation
• World POPClock

 

• Total Midyear Population for the Worl 1950-2050

II. THE CURRENCY OF THE ISSUE Of FUTURE OF EDGE CITIES

• A map of Fairfax and neighboring "Edge Cities" from Joel Garreau, Edge Cties (1991), p. 345

• A recent Market Place analysis on NPR

III. DEFINING EDGE CITIES

• NICK ASTER: A Helpful Guide to what Constitutes an "Edge City"

 

GOLD - City Profiles: ORLANDO

 Joel Garreau at: http://www.transdata.ca/trillium/pages/joel.html

IV. MARYLAND'S OWN EDGE CITY: Owings Mills

• M. Stern--Owings Mills Project  (local version from http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/stern/index.html)

 

• M. Stern--Owings Mills Project (live web version)

 

V. BEYOND THE EDGE?- Orange County California

VI. TOWARDS A GLOBAL SOLUTION-Public Works and Public Transporation

• making the most of existing transportation systems: The Beltways

 

• making the most of existing transportation systems: The Allan/Weese Proposal

 

• making the most of existing transportation systems: The Current Washington Subway

 

• making the most of existing transportation systems: The Proposed Circle Line

 

CONCLUSION: What Should be next for Owings Mills and other Edge Cities?

©Edward C. Papenfuse, 1998