Brain magnet : Research Triangle Park and the idea of the idea economy /

"Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina's low-wage economy. They pitched the universities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill as the kernel of a tech hub, Research Triangle Park, which would lur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cummings, Alex Sayf (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Colección:Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism.
Temas:
Research Triangle Park (N.C.) > History.
Research Triangle Park (N.C.)
Knowledge economy > North Carolina > Research Triangle > History.
Technology > Research > North Carolina > Research Triangle > History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Computers & Information Technology.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Knowledge economy.
Technology > Research.
North Carolina > Research Triangle
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface: RTP Donuts
  • Introduction: From Textiles and Tobacco to the City of Ideas
  • 1. Imagining the Triangle: The Unlikely Origins of the Creative City in the Cold War South
  • 2. "Not a Second Ruhr": Building a Postindustrial Economy in the 1960s
  • 3. Welcome to Parkwood: Newcomers Find Their Way in the Emerging Triangle
  • Interlude: Sweet Gums, Traffic Jams, and Cilantro
  • 4. "The Greatest Concentration of PhDs in the Country": The Idea Economy Comes of Age in the Triangle
  • 5. Cary, SAS, and the Search for the Good Life
  • Interlude: The Islamic School in Parkwood
  • 6. "We Think a Lot": The Triangle in the Age of Gentrification
  • Epilogue: The Figure of the Knowledge Worker
  • Notes
  • Index

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