Book ID: CBB309820357

Valley of Heart's Delight: Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley (2022)

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Anne Marie Todd (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 207
Language: English

This agricultural history explores the transformation of the Santa Clara Valley over the past one hundred years from America's largest fruit-producing region into the technology capital of the world. In the latter half of the twentieth century, the region's focus shifted from fruits—such as apricots and prunes—to computers. Both personal and public rhetoric reveals how a sense of place emerges and changes in an evolving agricultural community like the Santa Clara Valley. Through extensive archival research and interviews, Anne Marie Todd explores the concepts of place and placelessness, arguing that place is more than a physical location and that exploring a community's sense of place can help us to map how individuals experience their natural surroundings and their sense of responsibility towards the local environment. Todd extends the concept of sense of place to describe Silicon Valley as a non-place, where weakened or disrupted attachment to place threatens the environment and community. The story of the Santa Clara Valley is an American story of the development of agricultural lands and the transformation of rural regions.

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Authors & Contributors
Jones-Branch, Cherisse
Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia
Zachary B. Wasserman
Amalia Leguizamón
Karen Chapple
Daniel Rothenburg
Concepts
Rural history
Agriculture
Environment
Computer industry
Rural development
Technology and society
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Medieval
Enlightenment
Places
Silicon Valley (California)
United States
California (U.S.)
Europe
Arkansas (U.S.)
Western states (U.S.)
Institutions
Intel Corporation (firm)
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