edge city - 2024 ARGOS - Buzzpoints App

Question

This geographical term was invented by Joel Garreau in a seminal 1961 book titled for it and “life on the new frontier.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this term for new cities developing around outer fringes of metropolitan areas with large amounts of office and retail space, whose original archetype is Tysons, Virginia. A type of them called a “greenfield” is typified by Reston Town Center.

ANSWER: edge city

[10e] Edge cities lack these central commercial and cultural areas found in traditional cities. Many edge cities are attempting to pedestrianize their centers to emulate these areas.

ANSWER: downtowns [accept CBDs or central business districts; prompt on city centers]

[10h] In a 2007 book of the same name, Robert Lang created this portmanteau term for Tysons and other edge cities with over 100,000 residents and double-digit rates of population growth over multiple decades, the largest at the time being Mesa, Arizona.

ANSWER: boomburbs (The portmanteau is “boomer,” one of Garreau’s subclassifications of edge cities, and “suburb.”)

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Summary


2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis	03/22/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago	11/23/2024	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College	12/14/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia	11/23/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster	11/17/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford	02/22/2025	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS Online	03/22/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Import Pandas	\|madam\|	10	10	0	20
"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro	Hu up Jinning they Tao	10	10	0	20
BHSU Rebirth	WashU	10	10	10	30
Clown Squad	Northeast by Northwestern	0	10	0	10
Music to Help You Stop Smoking	Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?	0	10	0	10
Banned from ARGOS	Pahkin' the Ahgo	0	10	0	10
That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days	Clown Senpais	0	10	0	10
BHSU ReFantazio	The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame	hawk two of	0	10	0	10
Cambridge	Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz	0	10	0	10
Defying Suavity	Simple Vibes	0	10	0	10
Cien Años de Quizboledad	Limp Franceskit	0	10	0	10
Walston et. al.	12 Litres of Green Tea	0	10	0	10
jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club	just one more half-dot bro	0	10	0	10
Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country	Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken	0	10	0	10
Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut	The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange	10	10	0	20
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	10	10	0	20
Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha	as rational as the square root of two power bottoms	0	10	0	10
Cope is the thing with feathers	NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	0	10	0	10
Berkeley	Cry of the Common Loon	0	10	0	10
Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?	Stanford+	0	10	0	10
number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku	A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs	0	10	0	10
Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms	I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire	0	10	0	10
CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!	UBC	0	10	0	10
throw away your cards, rally in the streets	Thompson et al.	10	10	0	20