Cities of knowledge : Cold War science and the search for the next Silicon Valley /
Margaret Pugh O'Mara.
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.
- xiii, 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Politics and society in twentieth-century America .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-290) and index.
Cold War politics -- "Multiversities," cities, and suburbs -- From the farm to the valley : Stanford University and the San Francisco peninsula -- Building "Brainsville" : the University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia -- Selling the new South : Georgia Tech and Atlanta -- Conclusion : the next Silicon Valley.
0691117160 (cloth : alk. paper)
2003066082
Research institutes--Location--United States. Research parks--Location--United States. Research, Industrial--Location--United States.