Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-tech Urbanism

A history of the environmental prospects and perils of turning the Santa Clara Valley into Silicon Valley in the late twentieth century. Shows how melding the bucolic naturalism of orchards, pleasant weather, and green spaces with the metropolitan promise of modern industry, government-funded research, and technology drew people to Silicon Valley but also produced faults concerning widespread environmental degradation and increasing social stratification--

• | Author: Jason A. Heppler
• | Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 23, 2024
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0806193743
• | ISBN-13: 9780806193748