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The urban contradictions of Silicon Valley: regional growth and the restructuring of the semiconductor industry
Author(s) -
Saxenian AnnaLee
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
international journal of urban and regional research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.456
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1468-2427
pISSN - 0309-1317
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2427.1983.tb00592.x
Subject(s) - silicon valley , mandate , restructuring , semiconductor industry , silicon , bay , political science , economic geography , archaeology , geography , engineering , materials science , law , metallurgy , manufacturing engineering , entrepreneurship
If small is beautiful, that mandate is fulfilled not chiefly in windmills and solar cells, but in California's vale of cubistic new factories across the bay from San Francisco — Santa Clara's Silicon Valley, where worlds indeed unfold in grains of sand.