"edge of city" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the geographical area or physical border of a city, or the more figurative social or emotional boundaries of city life. For example, "John had no experience living in the city, so he was wary of venturing to the edge of city."
Franklin Avenue, skimming past the mouths of Hollywood's eastern canyons, at the disappearing far-north edge of city maps, forms a halfhearted high street for the apartment dwellers clustered on its banks.
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Run by Urban Space, which also operates the holiday markets in Union Square and Columbus Circle, the market sits on the western edge of City Point, a huge project that will open its first 50,000 square feet of retail space sometime next year and plans to keep growing into 2020.
Khamis won two free-kicks on the edge of City's goalmouth within the first 10 minutes.
With regard to traffic, its unfavorable conditions (i.e., inconvenience, overcrowding) cause women, whether those stranded in villages or hovering at the edge of city, difficulty in going about their daily lives with comfort and ease.
And as luck would have it, our no-frills but functional edge-of-city-centre hotel had one very good thing going for it: a roof-top pool.
Messy but productive slums on the edge of cities are growing fast.
The real restriction on Britain's construction sector is planning policy, which constrains building near existing infrastructure at the edge of cities.
In reality, most electrical waste still ends up polluting landfill sites on the edge of cities and towns.
Unfortunately, in many parts of the developing world the result is shantytowns on the edge of cities with inadequate sanitation, marginal economic opportunity and poor social services.
A 3.5 mile section of the Jordan River Parkway trail runs through the city from northern edge of the city all the way to the southern edge.
