| 单词 | edge city |
| 释义 | > as lemmasedge city edge city n. originally U.S. (also with capital initials) (a) a notional place outside the bounds of conventional society, esp. as conceived by participants in the psychedelic drug culture of the 1960s and 1970s; (b) Sociology a centre of commercial and residential development situated on the outskirts of a city, usually beside a major road. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > other areas friars1479 foreign1514 acropolis1570 sestiere1599 shopping district1837 downstreet1865 Latin Quarter1869 midtown1882 club-land1885 flat-land1889 brick area1895 turf1953 grey area1959 office park1963 bed-sitter-land1968 edge city1968 1968 T. Wolfe Electric Kool-aid Acid Test iv. 35 It's time to take the Prankster circus further on toward Edge City. 1988 New Scientist 29 Sept. 68/3 Kesey hoped to reach a Zen-like state which he called ‘Edge City’ via LSD. In Edge City, he believed, it might be possible to live totally in the here and now. 1989 Atlantic Nov. 34/3 The fastest-growing kind of town in the country is one on the outer edge of a metropolitan area which has acquired an employment base... There are..several..names for them, including ‘edge cities’ and ‘technoburbs’. 1996 New Statesman 26 July 54/1 It will be the biggest example of Edge City yet built: business parks, housing and a grandiloquent new campus for the University of Greenwich. < as lemmas |
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