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Originally Posted by Stenar

Edge city

"'Edge city' is an American term for a concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional downtown (or central business district) in what had previously been a residential or rural area."

"The edge city is fundamentally impossible without the automobile. It was not until automobile ownership surged in the 1950s, after four decades of fast steady growth, that the edge city became truly possible. Whereas virtually every American central business district (CBD) or secondary downtown that developed around non-motorized transportation or the streetcar has a pedestrian-friendly grid pattern, most edge cities instead have a hierarchical street arrangement centered on pedestrian-hostile arterial roads."

Source: wikipedia