BELOW, you will find our preliminary organizing principles and research questions into the project on the Silicon Valley green economy. CLICK here for more information about this project at the Center for Community Innovation and the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley.
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* Research Questions
* Bibliography
* Webography
Contact:
aaronwilcher AT gmail DOT com (Aaron Wilcher, MCP student researcher)
smontero AT berkekey DOT edu (Sergio Montero, MCP student researcher)
Research Questions: Silicon Valley’s Economic History and Innovation Assets
* Social Networks (see Saxenian, Castells, Rhee, and Joint Ventures annual reports)
–leadership organizations and associations (Joint Ventures, SV Leadership Group [formerly Manufacturing Group]), American Leadership Forum
–industry associations (see Saxenian, 1994)
–neighborhood associations
–community organizing groups (People Acting in Community Together PACT)
–labor groups: South Bay Labor Council and Working Partnerships
–nonprofit and volunteer associations
* Industrial Development (Saxenian, 2 books; see also Walker, Rhee, and Benner; Castells, Pincetl)
–How did flex-spec evolve and diversify? Where does the Valley stand in relation to broader national and international materialist developments in industrial production practices: social networks, spinoffs, flexible employment? With what cities does it share economic-industrial development practices? (see O’Mara’s current work: Bangalore, Shenzhen, Silicon Valley)
* Labor Markets (see Benner, Zlolniski, Pitti, Alarcon, and Saxenian)
–evolution of flex spec and polarized income-wealth distribution
–migration patterns international and domestic-regional
–visa labor markets and illicit markets
–industrial relations: while high tech emerged unorganized, Working Partnerships has led some innovative policy initiatives and been a power broker in the Valley
* Geographic Factors (Spatial Political Economy) (see O’Mara, Matthews, Winner, Findlay, Pitti, Trounstein and Christensen, Rhee, esp. Ch. 4; in general, see Pincetl; see land use reports from the SVLG and Joint Ventures annual reports)
–Political economy of land use
–Stanford’s networks and the political economy of “cities of knowledge”
–in the context of the rise of the Sunbelt
–evolution of economic development factors
–Identify political regimes and their impact on land use and economic development (see especially Trounstein and Christensen; Rhee, Walker 2002, O’Mara)
* Economic Development and Regulatory Contexts (Pincetl, Saxenian, O’Mara)
–crossover with political economy of landuse and development, but specifically, how did city and state policy affect the economic development climate?
–“good business climate”?
–What kinds of policies lay the groundwork for “green economic development”?
–with whom has the Silicon Valley competed and with whom is it now competing (see O’Mara’s current work: Bangalore, Shenzhen, Silicon Valley)
–How have/will regional consumer practices influenced/been influenced by
* Environmental History (see David Pellow, Pincetl, Walker)
–the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition; Superfund sites
–how has the interaction of EJ, environmentalists, federal cleanup, and business corrections and abuses affected the political economic context for developing a green economy?
* Education Institutional Framework (see Saxenian, O’Mara, Walker, 2002; Findlay)
–community colleges, state colleges and research universities, Stanford
–How were these institutions both power brokers in the political economy of land use, but also engines for economic development with employment-education agreements?
* Finance Capital (see Saxenian, Castells)
–how did VC evolve and what did its presence do for the evolution of the Valley
–Can we place this VC market in the context of other global knowledge cities? How might these relationships change? How do these investment patterns model other places? Who are the players and what are their portfolios? Are the major finance brokers betting on other places? If so, how?
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Webography
Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities
http://www.bayareaalliance.org/
Building Partnerships USA
http://building-partnerships.org/
BVN San Jose 1975-2006
http://www.bvnasj.org/SanJose19752006.htm
b l a n c a ~ a l v a r a d o
http://www.blancaalvarado.org/mainpage.html
California Redevelopment Association
http://www.calredevelop.org
Central Valley Partnership
http://www.citizenship.net/partners/pan_valley.shtml
CJTC — The Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community
http://cjtc.ucsc.edu/
CommuniverCity
http://www.communivercitysanjose.org/
Conference Program SJSU Immigration Conference
http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/SocialSciences/socsci_files/Conf_program.htm
Opportunity Fund
http://www.opportunityfund.org
Enter the World of Eichler Design
http://totheweb.com/eichler/
green planning facilitation education
http://www.greenplanning.org/contact.html
Institute for the Study of Social Change (ISSC) UC Berkeley
http://issc.berkeley.edu/
Interview with Ted Smith SV Toxics Book
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/authors/1788_qa.html
Joint Ventures: The Index of Silicon Valley
http://www.jointventure.org/publicatons/siliconvalleyindex.html
Knowledge Cities
http://depts.washington.edu/kcrg/silicon.php
Leadership Institute | Urban Habitat
http://urbanhabitat.org/li
Manuel Pastor Presentations in pdf
http://people.ucsc.edu/~mpastor/presentations.htm
Margaret O’Mara – Home
http://faculty.washington.edu/momara/
Mysteries of the Region Knowledge Dynamics in the SV Paul Duguid
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~duguid/SLOFI/Mysteries_of_the_Region.htm
Oanh Ha won a 2003 award for reporting on Mayfair
http://www.gradethenews.org/pages/SPJ%20awards03.htm
Professor Langdon Winner – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
http://www.langdonwinner.org/
Resources : SV Modern | Celebrating the Silicon Valley’s Mid-Century Past
http://www.svmodern.com/sv-modern-resources.html
San Jose Redevelopment Agency
http://www.sjredevelopment.org/aboutsjra.htm
San Jose Underbelly Cool historic al photos
http://www.sanjose.com/underbelly/unbelly/Sanjose/sjsigns/signs4.html
Santa Clara County Archives – County Clerk-Recorder (DEP)
http://www.sccgov.org/portal/site/rec/agencychp/?path=%2Fv7%2FCounty%20ClerkRecorder%20(DEP)%2FCounty%20Archives
SiLiCoN vAlLeY dE-bUg
http://www.siliconvalleydebug.com/index.html
Silicon Valley Community Foundation – Publications & Research
http://www.siliconvalleycf.org/newsResources_pubsResearch.html#pubs
Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits
http://www.svcn.org/
Silicon Valley History
http://www.netvalley.com/svhistory.html
Silicon Valley History
http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~jones/shockley/sili_valley.html
Silicon Valley History Online
http://www.siliconvalleyhistory.org/
Silicon Valley Local History Resources
http://www.sjsu.edu/~jwhitlat/svlh.htm
Silicon Valley Online: Silicon Valley Economic Development Alliance
http://www.siliconvalleyonline.org/
Silicon Valley Prospector: Economic Development Available sites, buildings, demographics, businesses and GIS mapping–
http://www.siliconvalleyprospector.com/ed.asp?bhcp=1
Silicon Valley Workforce Investment Network, connecting job seekers and businesses.
http://www.work2future.biz/
SJSU Communiversity
http://www.communivercitysanjose.org/
Somos Mayfair
http://www.somosmayfair.org/community.htm
Sourisseau Academy
http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/history/Resources/Sourisseau.htm
South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council
http://www.atwork.org/
Stanford Silicon Valley Archives
http://svarchive.stanford.edu/main.html
Sustainable Silicon Valley
http://www.sustainablesiliconvalley.org/
SVTC: Silicon Valley Toxic Tour
http://www.etoxics.org/site/PageServer?pagename=svtc_silicon_valley_toxic_tour
The Regional Advantage of the Silicon Valley and Its History
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/regadv.htm
Thrive Alliance of San Mateo County Nonprofits
http://www.thrivealliance.org/
Transweb – Mineta Transportation Institute
http://transweb.sjsu.edu/mtiportal/index.html
UC berkeley Labor Center Leadership Schools
http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/leadershipschools/
UCB Guides to City & Regional Planning Research
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/cityguid.html
University of Minnesota Syllabus on Silicon Valley History
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~jbshank/syllabus.html
Working Partnerships USA
http://www.wpusa.org/
Working Partnerships USA Reports
http://www.wpusa.org/Publication/index.htm#ev
