Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy

Acknowledgments

Preface: RTP Donuts

Introduction: From Textiles and Tobacco to the City of Ideas

1. Imagining the Triangle: The Unlikely Origins of the Creative City in the Cold War South

2. “Not a Second Ruhr”: Building a Postindustrial Economy in the 1960s

3. Welcome to Parkwood: Newcomers Find Their Way in the Emerging Triangle

Interlude: Sweet Gums, Traffic Jams, and Cilantro

4. “The Greatest Concentration of PhDs in the Country”: The Idea Economy Comes of Age in the Triangle

5. Cary, SAS, and the Search for the Good Life

Interlude: The Islamic School in Parkwood

6. “We Think a Lot”: The Triangle in the Age of Gentrification

Epilogue: The Figure of the Knowledge Worker