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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
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Table of Contents:
- 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