In a mayoral election year now in which the incumbent – kicked to the curb by the local and county Democratic organizations – hasn’t yet announced whether he will seek a third term as an independent, planning and sprawl and organization and overcrowding ( the school district threatened to sue to stop the pop. miles) and maybe more dysfunctional than most, even if the dysfunction has an endearing quality close to the ruinous beating heart of Jersey. Like so many of New Jersey’s municipalities, maybe most, Edison on first encounter doesn’t resemble a town really so much as a spillzone, as if the geometric oddities of other areas got indiscriminately bulldozed into its boundaries and atrophied to create the disassociated suggestions of shapes, all of it with the nooses of intersecting highways and parking lots around it, and somewhere within it all, the ongoing anonymous procedures of humanity.īut for every town in the state that no one can name, which arose out of the afterthoughts of a corporate developer who strong-armed a local governing body into paving and packing a former livestock grazing area with high rises, fast food stands, and nail salons, Edison is that recognizable Central Jersey suburban beacon for all others, bigger (pop. EDISON – From the vantage point of planning, no one would ever confuse the town with a Norman Rockwell painting.
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