Editing Edge city (section)

===Types of edge cities===
Garreau identified three distinct varieties of the edge city phenomenon:
* '''[[Boomburb]]s''' or "boomers" – the most common type, having developed incrementally but rapidly around a [[shopping mall]] or [[highway]] interchange, for example [[Tysons, Virginia]], near [[Washington, D.C.]]{{sfn|Garreau|1991|p=114}}
* '''Greenfields''' – originally master-planned as [[new towns]], generally on the suburban fringe, for example [[Reston Town Center]] in [[Reston, Virginia]], near [[Washington, D.C.]]{{sfn|Garreau|1991|p=116}}
* '''Uptowns''' – an older city, town, or [[satellite city]], upon and around which a major regional hub of economic activity rises, for example [[Arlington, Virginia]], across the [[Potomac River]] from [[Washington, D.C.]]{{sfn|Garreau|1991|p=113}}

Additional terms are used to refer to edge cities, such as ''suburban business districts'', ''major diversified centers'', ''suburban cores'', ''minicities'', ''suburban activity centers'', ''cities of realms'', ''galactic cities'', ''urban subcenters'', ''pepperoni-pizza cities'', ''superburbia'', ''technoburbs'', ''nucleations'', ''disurbs'', ''service cities'', ''perimeter cities'', ''peripheral centers'', ''urban villages'', and ''suburban downtowns''.<ref name="thoughtco">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thoughtco.com/edge-city-1435778|title=Outside Every Metropolis You Will Find an Edge City|work=ThoughtCo|access-date=2018-04-03}}</ref>