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Article: Virtual ecology: a brief environmental history of Silicon Valley.(Cover Story)
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- World Watch
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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This place in sunny California, so famous for its high technology, high salaries, and campus-like office parks, is not what it seems.
"Dutch" Hamann, City Manager of San Jose, California, from 1950 to 1970, liked to say that he put Silicon Valley on the map. Despite Hamann's success at spurring economic growth, though, the oil-executive-turned-civic-planner drew much criticism for his expansionist boosterism, for having allowed industrial parks and housing tracts to sprawl perhaps too far, blotting out Santa Clara County's former beauty. His retirement, which came just as the county's high-tech nickname started to enter the national lexicon, was celebrated not ...