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RESIDENTS OF SIMI VALley don't usually have much contact with people from South Central Los Angeles. The lustrous suburb where the Rodney King beating trial was held and the inner-city war zone that erupted in rioting two weeks ago are separated by just a 45-minute ride. In most other respects they are a world apart. But last week, for a fleeting moment of mutual incomprehension, they came face to face...
Corporations seeking relief from high big-city taxes also joined the rush, feeding the growth of hybrid suburb-cities like Virginia's Tysons Corner, Perimeter Center outside Atlanta, and the spanking new localities of the Route 128 corridor in Massachusetts. According to Joel Garreau, author of Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, by many standards of urban life these mostly low- rise population centers are already minicities. Most of the more than 200 suburban hybrids that he studied have more office space, shopping, entertainment, prestigious hotels, corporate headquarters -- even hospitals with high-tech CAT-scan machines -- than such conventional...
Garreau's "edge cities" are very different from traditional suburbs that looked to the nearby city as their center. "They're not sub-anything," he says. "They are now the standard form of American urban life." As jobs and cultural attractions have moved out to such places, the people who live there have little reason to venture into old cities at all. "I never, ever go to the city," says Joan Schimansky, 43, a resident of the Miami suburb of Kendall. "There's not much down there for a family with two kids...
...mostly homogeneous suburbs, people have less stake in solving the problems of people unlike themselves in the dimly remembered cities. It is also more tempting for them to dump their own problems there. Until last summer, Westchester County, a prosperous suburb of New York City, was exporting some of its homeless to a hotel in midtown Manhattan. Five years ago, the sewage-treatment plant in the bedraggled New Jersey city of Camden % began taking on sewage waste from every other community in the county. To protest the stench, residents stopped paying their annual $275 sewer fees. Last week the sewer...
...chief's term, subject to a one-time reappointment by the mayor. Gates, who had a virtual lifetime guarantee of employment before he announced his retirement effective this June, opposes the new law. When last week's violence erupted, in fact, Gates was at a reception in the affluent suburb of Brentwood, trying to raise money to fight the proposal...