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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Edge City UK: Abomination or new urban form?

Edge City UK: Abomination or new urban form?

Yarranton, Lesley
Boyle, David

Paperback

General Architecture

ISBN10: 1912119463
ISBN13: 9781912119462
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Nov 4 2022
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Three decades ago, the Washington Post writer Joel Garreau published his book Edge City. It was subtitled 'Life on the new American frontier', and it caused a huge stir on both sides of the Atlantic.

In it, he identified a new kind of place - often yet to be recorded on a road atlas - that was shaping the way Americans lived. But what about the UK? Has the erosion of our planning system - not to mention the covid lockdowns, and our crumbling high streets - been sending us in a similar direction?

David Boyle and Lesley Yarranton both followed the debate from opposite sides of the world, when the UK shuddered at the edge city idea. But a great deal has changed since then. This book takes them in search of a British version of a big American ideal.

With a foreword by Sue Pritchard, chief executive of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission.

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