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Article: A production utopia? RTP and the North Carolina Research Triangle.( Research Triangle Park)
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- Southeastern Geographer
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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The effort to cast the central Piedmont region of North Carolina as the Research Triangle has been promoted since the mid-1950s. It has relied, in particular, on the development of a 7,000-ac science and high-tech research complex--the Research Triangle Park (RTP)--as the region's geographic, economic, and symbolic core. This paper explores cultural and material constructions of place and region that have evolved with, and in some ways driven, this project. Depictions of the RTP site's historical emptiness, in this sense, beckoned for replacement with a more modern economic and cultural geography of science and technology. The purpose of the paper is thus to raise ...