"Margaret Pugh O'Mara has written a timely and brilliant exposition
of the powerful forces that helped create the great suburban
'centers' of America's knowledge economy. This book is essential
reading for every American metropolis imagining a high-tech
future."--Bruce Katz, Director, Center on Urban and Metropolitan
Policy, The Brookings Institution
"Can American cities survive in the twenty-first century?
Margaret Pugh O'Mara puts forth a blueprint, not only for their
survival, but one that could lead to an economic resurgence that
restores cities to their traditional leadership role."--Edward G.
Rendell, Governor, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
"An original, compelling, and important book, "Cities of
Knowledge" is at once a work of deep empirical research and of
creative interpretation. O'Mara's study will make major
contributions to economic history, political history, and the
cultural history of suburban development in post-World War II
America."--Bruce Schulman, author of "From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt:
Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the
South, 1938-1980"
"O'Mara tells you why the search for the next Silicon Valley has
been so difficult and so important. By placing the history of
Silicon Valley and its would-be imitators in Philadelphia and
Atlanta into a larger history of postwar America, she challenges us
to think about whether conventional cities can compete with
emerging cities of knowledge and if so, on what terms. Urban
planners may not find her four lessons easy to implement, but they
have plenty to learn from them."--Stuart W. Leslie, author of "The
Cold War and American Science"
""Cities of Knowledge" is an important work thatreframes our
understanding of the relationship between science, metropolitan
development, and the Cold War state. O'Mara's creative synthesis of
international, national, regional, and local perspectives combined
with her explication of the tension between public and private
development charts a course for future work in this field."--Brian
Balogh, University of Virginia, author of "Commercial Nuclear
Power, 1945-1975"
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