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Book Review


Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley. By Margaret Pugh O'Mara. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xvi, 298 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-11716-0.)
In her new book, Margaret Pugh O'Mara describes the rise to prominence of science as a means to economic growth and prosperity in the United States and attempts to explain why some regions were better able to fertilize high-technology development than others. O'Mara's discussion centers on cities of knowledge, "engines of scientific production, filled with high-tech industries, homes for scientific workers and their families, with research universities at their heart" (p. 1), and she focuses intensely on three locales: Silicon Valley, Philadelphia, and Atlanta. . . .
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