1st Edition
Silicon Alley The Rise and Fall of a New Media District
By Michael Indergaard
Copyright 2004
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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The 1990s dawned with a belief that the digital revolution would radically transform our traditional notion of cities as places of commerce and industry. Many predicted that digital technology would render cities--or at least their economies--obsolete. Instead, precisely the opposite happened. The IT-intensive firms of the new economy needed to be plugged into a sizeable network of talent,... Read more
Preface 1. Who Were the New Media People and Why Did They Believe? 2. Making and Selling a New Media District 3. Capital and Credibility: Hooking up With Wall Street 4. Taking New York Into a New Economy 5. Over the River and Through the Hoods 6. Silicon Alley Unplugged 7. Creativity Unbound (and Reframed?) Notes Index
Biography
Michael Indergaard is Associate Professor of Sociology at St. John's University in Jamaica, NY.
"Highly recommended." -- Library Journal
"Mr. Indergaard has some useful things to say about what can be rescued from the glory days of Silicon Alley. He points out that real estate innovations during that period, particularly in the Flatiron District, could be appropriated for the rebuilding of lower Manhattan, specifically in regards to office space and the "open flow of capital." But his strongest argument is that the most important change during the period was in the culture of young people." -- The New York Sun
"Mr. Indergaard has some useful things to say about what can be rescued from the glory days of Silicon Alley. He points out that real estate innovations during the period, particularly in the Flatiron District, could be appropriated for the rebuildings of lower Manhattan, specifically in regards to office space and the "open flow of capital." But his strongest argument is that the most important change during the period was in the culture of young people." -- New york Sun
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