Irvine Spectrum is a district in southeasternIrvine,Orange County, California,^[1] centered on theIrvine Spectrum Center shopping andlifestyle center. It is also anedge city, a concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional downtown, as defined byJoel Garreau in his 1991 bookEdge City: Life on the New Frontier.^[2]

The Irvine Spectrum Center is anchored byTarget,Nordstrom and a largeEdwards Cinema multiplex. Office space is leased by theIrvine Company, which promotes Irvine Spectrum as Orange County's newtech hub and its new "Downtown" of office space, with 13 million square feet of office space in over 40 office "communities".^[3][4] The area also includes apartments, and is immediately adjacent to two other districts that by Garreau's abovementioned criteria would make them part of the edge city:

• Irvine Medical and Science Complex to the west, containingCal State Fullerton Irvine Center,Hoag Hospital Irvine and aKaiser Permanente hospital
• Irvine Technology Center to the east, containing Alton Marketplace (big box center with aCostco andWalmart), theIrvine Transportation Center, withAmtrak andMetrolink train service, and the FivePoint Amphitheater

• El Toro Y

• Edge cities in Greater Los Angeles
• Villages of Irvine, California
• High-technology business districts in the United States
• Geography of Orange County, California

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