Meaning of "strip city" (strip cities)

[Lyliea]

Hi everyone,

I encountered the word "strip city / strip cities" in a passage before. I tried to looked it up in the dictionary and search in google, but no satisfactory result was found. What is the meaning of strip cities anyway?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
~maria

[Riazuddin]

yes, you are right. it might be used in different context... however, if you provide me the passage carrying the words 'strip city', i might be able to explain. However, it might mean 'the city which are located near offshore/beach' or something like that... however, i am also confused.

Riazuddin

[Lyliea]

Sorry for my long post. Here's the full sentence that I found.

'A person commuting between Detroit and Chicago, or between
San Fransisco and Los Angeles,so-called strip cities, may spend
only a relatively short time in the air while spending several hours
getting to and from the airport.'

[Darkclarity]

luckily, the questions asked about the passage do not need one to know this phrase. It is truly an annoying error.
It could mean, strip like strip mall or along a shore, long and narrow. This maybe one of those American-British differences.
I look some more...

[Expatcat]

In the context of the passage, I would guess that it means cities that are in locations forming a strip in a flight path. For instance, NYC, Philadelphia, Washington DC.

I have never heard this expression and google yields nothing.