ABSTRACT
In assessing metropolitan growth in Ohio and more specifically the emergence of the edge city phenomenon, it has become apparent that growth patterns are emerging in or near certain metropolitan areas that do not conform to the definitional characteristics of edge cities as defined by Garreau, or to the interpretations of those characteristics designed to accommodate the Ohio experience. Certain metropolitan suburbs have grown, and continue to grow, while not evidencing the level of office development that characterizes edge cities. Other areas near to but not linked over time (explained in Chapter 12) with metropolitan complexes have emerged as nodes of activity not typical of the edge city. Both settings for urban expansion are significant in their own right and important to the metropolitan areas to which they may relate.
