O'Mara Cities of Knowledge

Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6688-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 27, 320 Seiten

Reihe: Politics and Society in Modern America

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Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Mara, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction Discovering the City of Knowledge 1

PART ONE: INTENT

1. Cold War Politics 17

Frameworks, 1945-1950 18

Policy and Geography, 1950-1965 36

Conclusion 55

2. "Multiversities," Cities, and Suburbs 58

The Scientist in the Garden 60

Economic Development Solutions 75

Conclusion 92

PART TWO: IMPLEMENTATION

3. From the Farm to the Valley: Stanford University and the San Francisco Peninsula 97

A Western Retreat 99

Hot and Cold Wars 103

Land Development 110

A Model City 127

"The Battle of the Hills" 132

Conclusion 139

4. Building" Brainsville": The University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia 142

Franklin's University and Its City 143

From Computers to Medicine 146

Industrial Decline and Urban Renewal 151

Building University City 158

Scientific Industry Comes to West Philadelphia 166

Controversy and Protest 172

Conclusion 180

5. Selling the New South: Georgia Tech and Atlanta 182

The New Industrial South 185

Postwar Growth and Postwar Power 190

Expansion and Entrepreneurship at Georgia Tech 201

Selling Atlanta in the Space Age 207

Research Parks, Office Parks, and Another Stanford? 216

Conclusion 221

PART THREE LEGACY Conclusion The Next Silicon Valley 225

Notes 235

Index 291

Über Autor(innen)

Margaret Pugh O'Mara teaches history at Stanford University. The dissertation this book is based upon won the Urban History Association's award for Best Dissertation in Urban History completed in 2002.