Silicon Alley: The Rise and Fall of a New Media District

ISBN-13: 9780415935708 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 236 str.

Michael Indergaard

Opis

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, something that established cities like New York and San Francisco provided in abundance. In addition to creating new types of jobs and luring thousands of workers back into the city, new media districts created a new techno-bohemian urban culture. With vignettes of the high-rollers in New York's new media economy and stories of wild parties in downtown lofts, Michael Indergaard introduces us to the players in this new economy, and explores this intersection of commerce and culture in 1992 New York. He also reveals how the dot-com crash laid bare the hidden connections between the so called new economy of new media and the ages old engines of New York wealth: real estate speculators and Wall Street. Chronicling the go-go years and ultimate crash of the new media district, Silicon Alley is a bril

Recenzje

"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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Spis treści

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

O autorze

Michael Indergaard is Associate Professor of Sociology at St. John's University in Jamaica, NY.