| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3 | The History Cooperative

Margaret Pugh O'Mara. Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley. (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America.) Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 298. $35.00.
Margaret Pugh O'Mara has written a very good book that successfully engages important issues in recent U.S. history and carries implications for current economic development policy. "Cities of knowledge" are not entire metropolitan regions but rather specific subareas that are "filled with high-tech industries, [with] homes for scientific workers and their families, with research universities at their heart." The pioneer and model is Silicon Valley, the paragon that economic development officials all over the world want to inscribe on their own regions.	1
Is there anything new to say about Silicon Valley after John Findlay's chapter in Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940 (1992) and Annalee Saxenian's Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (1994)? The answer is "You bet there is. O'Mara makes three new and important contributions."	. . .

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