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What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become "the next Silicon Valley," but few have succeeded. This book examines why high-tech development became so economically important late in the twentieth century, and why its magic formula of people, jobs, capital, and institutions has been so difficult to replicate. Margaret O'Mara shows that high-tech regions are not simply accidental market creations but "cities of knowledge"--planned communities of scientific production that were shaped and subsidized by the original venture capitalist, the Cold War defense complex. At the heart of the story is the American research university, an institution enriched by Cold War spending and actively engaged in economic development. The story of the city of knowledge broadens our understanding of postwar urban history and of the relationship between civil society and the state in late twentieth-century America. It leads us to further redefine the American suburb as being much more than formless "sprawl," and shows how it is in fact the ultimate post-industrial city. Understanding this history and geography is essential to planning for the future of the high-tech economy, and this book is must reading for anyone interested in building the next Silicon Valley.
USA -- 911.02 --- SILICON VALLEY -- 911.02 --- URBAN PLANNING -- 911.02 --- METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT -- 911.02 --- RESEARCH INSTITUTES -- 911.02 --- RESEARCH PARKS -- 911.02 --- POST-WORLD WAR II ERA -- 711.4 --- SUBURBAN DEVELOPMENT -- 711.4 --- USA -- 711.4 --- URBAN PLANNING -- 711.4 --- METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT -- 711.4 --- RESEARCH INSTITUTES -- 711.4 --- RESEARCH PARKS -- 711.4 --- SUBURBAN DEVELOPMENT -- 911.02 --- SILICON VALLEY -- 711.4 --- Research, Industrial --- Research institutes --- Research parks --- 378.4 <73> --- 378.4 <73> Universiteiten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Universiteiten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Parks, Research --- Parks, Science --- Research and development parks --- Science parks --- Industrial districts --- Institutes, Research --- Research centers --- Think tanks --- Universities and colleges --- Learned institutions and societies --- Contract research --- Industrial research --- Research --- Engineering experiment stations --- Inventions --- Technological innovations --- Location
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As old as a roadway that was once a Native trail, as new as the suburban subdivisions spreading across the American countryside, the cultural landscape is endlessly changing. The study of cultural landscapes-a far more recent development-has also undergone great changes, ever broadening, deepening, and refining our understanding of the intricate webs of social and ecological spaces that help to define human groups and their activities. Everyday America surveys the widening conceptions and applications of cultural landscape writing in the United States and, in doing so, offers a clear and compelling view of the state of cultural landscape studies today. These essays-by distinguished journalists, historians, cultural geographers, architects, landscape architects, and planners-constitute a critical evaluation of the field's theoretical assumptions, and of the work of John Brinckerhoff Jackson, the pivotal figure in the emergence of cultural landscape studies. At the same time, they present exemplary studies of twentieth-century landscapes, from the turn-of-the-century American downtown to the corporate campus and the mini-mall. Assessing the field's accomplishments and shortcomings, offering insights into teaching the subject, and charting new directions for its future development, Everyday America is an eloquent statement of the meaning, value, and potential of the close study of human environments as they embody, reflect, and reveal American culture.
Landscape assessment --- Cities and towns --- Human geography --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, --- Jackson, J. B. --- Jackson, Brinck, --- Jackson, J. B., --- Jackson, John Brinckerhoff "Brinck", --- Jiekexun, Yuehan Bulinkehuofu, --- 杰克逊, 约翰・布林克霍夫, --- Paysages --- Villes --- Géographie humaine --- Évaluation --- american history. --- anthropocentric. --- city planners. --- cultural geography. --- cultural history. --- cultural landscape. --- cultural studies. --- cultural. --- culture. --- development. --- ecological. --- ecology. --- geography. --- historians. --- historical. --- human activity. --- journalism. --- land development. --- landscape architect. --- social change. --- social problems. --- social studies. --- suburban development. --- suburban. --- suburbs. --- united states history. --- urban development. --- us history.
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