Brain Magnet : : Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy / / Alex Cummings.
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 lure a new cla...
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Cummings, Alex, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Brain Magnet : Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy / Alex Cummings. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource : 19 b&w figures text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 lure a new class of highly educated workers. In the process, they created a blueprint for what would become known as the knowledge economy: a future built on intellectual labor and the production of intellectual property.In Brain Magnet, Alex Sayf Cummings reveals the significance of Research Triangle Park to the emergence of the high-tech economy in a postindustrial United States. She analyzes the use of ideas of culture and creativity to fuel economic development, how workers experienced life in the Triangle, and the role of the federal government in bringing the modern technology industry into being. As Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill were transformed by high-tech development, the old South gave way to a distinctly new one, which welded the intellectual power of universities to a vision of the suburban good life. Cummings pinpoints how the story of the Research Triangle sheds new light on the origins of today’s urban landscape, in which innovation, as exemplified by the tech industry, is lauded as the engine of economic growth against a backdrop of gentrification and inequality. Placing the knowledge economy in a broader cultural and intellectual context, Brain Magnet offers vital insight into how tech-driven development occurs and the people and places left in its wake. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Knowledge economy North Carolina Research Triangle History. Technology Research North Carolina Research Triangle History. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110710977 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 English 9783110704730 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 9783110704525 ZDB-23-DEG print 9780231184908 https://doi.org/10.7312/cumm18490 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231545747 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231545747/original |
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