O'Mara, Margaret Pugh, 1970-

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)

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