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Title: Machines in the valley: community, urban change, and environmental politics in Silicon Valley, 1945-1990

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2016

ISBN: 9781339638751

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Abstract: Using Silicon Valley as a case study, this dissertation examines how activists influenced by the environmental movement reconfigured urban culture in the American West. *Machines in the Valley* argues that the spatial influences of the region's urban development gave rise to modern environmentalism that arose to criticize growth, but along the way failed to ultimately shape growth policies. While high technology sought to introduce a new urban form predicated on "clean and green" industries and an environmental urbanism, the premise of "clean" industry proved elusive. High technology industrialization emerged as a key component of economic and urban development in postwar era, particularly in western states seeking to diversify their economic activities. Industrialization produced thousands of new jobs, but development proved problematic when faced with competing views about land use. The natural allure that accompanied the thousands coming . . .

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Authors: Heppler, Jason A.

Institution: University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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Pages: 294

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