Alex Sayf Cummings
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781469631677
- eISBN:
- 9781469631691
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631677.003.0015
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
The Research Triangle has been called North Carolina’s “axis of cool” and “hipster vibe factory” full of food trucks and indie bands. For decades, North Carolinians have boasted that the three-city ...
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The Research Triangle has been called North Carolina’s “axis of cool” and “hipster vibe factory” full of food trucks and indie bands. For decades, North Carolinians have boasted that the three-city “triangle” of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill includes the greatest concentration of PhDs of any region in the country. This essay shows planners and boosters successfully leveraged local universities and cultural resources to attract firms such as IBM and Glaxo since the late 1950s, arguing that smart people—scientists and engineers—wanted to live around other smart people. In doing so, they not only established one of the South’s most dynamic tech hubs, but also prefigured the “creative class” strategy of development over forty years before urbanist Richard Florida coined it.Less
The Research Triangle has been called North Carolina’s “axis of cool” and “hipster vibe factory” full of food trucks and indie bands. For decades, North Carolinians have boasted that the three-city “triangle” of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill includes the greatest concentration of PhDs of any region in the country. This essay shows planners and boosters successfully leveraged local universities and cultural resources to attract firms such as IBM and Glaxo since the late 1950s, arguing that smart people—scientists and engineers—wanted to live around other smart people. In doing so, they not only established one of the South’s most dynamic tech hubs, but also prefigured the “creative class” strategy of development over forty years before urbanist Richard Florida coined it.
Brandon K. Winford
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813178257
- eISBN:
- 9780813178264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813178257.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Social Groups
Chapter 6 demonstrates the limitations of “black business activism” during the 1960s while focusing on urban renewal in Durham, North Carolina. Durham’s urban renewal program began in 1958, as a ...
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Chapter 6 demonstrates the limitations of “black business activism” during the 1960s while focusing on urban renewal in Durham, North Carolina. Durham’s urban renewal program began in 1958, as a consequence of the Housing Act of 1954 and the state’s fledgling Research Triangle Park (RTP) initiative. The urban renewal program paved the way for an infrastructure that ultimately provided linkages in the physical landscape between RTP, the University of North Carolina, Duke University, North Carolina Central University, and North Carolina State University. Wheeler became the lone black member on the Durham Redevelopment Commission, the group responsible for administering the Bull City’s urban renewal program. I argue that, in part, Wheeler’s support for the federally funded urban redevelopment program fit within his own framework of how best to implement the gains already being won by the civil rights movement. The chapter also examines the “War on Poverty” in North Carolina in the context of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. It does so through trying to better understand Wheeler’s involvement with the North Carolina Fund (NC Fund), an antipoverty agency created by Governor Terry Sanford in 1963. The Fund became the model for President Johnson’s national reform agenda.Less
Chapter 6 demonstrates the limitations of “black business activism” during the 1960s while focusing on urban renewal in Durham, North Carolina. Durham’s urban renewal program began in 1958, as a consequence of the Housing Act of 1954 and the state’s fledgling Research Triangle Park (RTP) initiative. The urban renewal program paved the way for an infrastructure that ultimately provided linkages in the physical landscape between RTP, the University of North Carolina, Duke University, North Carolina Central University, and North Carolina State University. Wheeler became the lone black member on the Durham Redevelopment Commission, the group responsible for administering the Bull City’s urban renewal program. I argue that, in part, Wheeler’s support for the federally funded urban redevelopment program fit within his own framework of how best to implement the gains already being won by the civil rights movement. The chapter also examines the “War on Poverty” in North Carolina in the context of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. It does so through trying to better understand Wheeler’s involvement with the North Carolina Fund (NC Fund), an antipoverty agency created by Governor Terry Sanford in 1963. The Fund became the model for President Johnson’s national reform agenda.
Shawn Chandler Bingham and Lindsey A. Freeman (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781469631677
- eISBN:
- 9781469631691
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631677.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
From the southern influence on nineteenth-century New York to the musical legacy of late-twentieth-century Athens, Georgia, to the cutting-edge cuisines of twenty-first-century Asheville, North ...
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From the southern influence on nineteenth-century New York to the musical legacy of late-twentieth-century Athens, Georgia, to the cutting-edge cuisines of twenty-first-century Asheville, North Carolina, the bohemian South has long contested traditional views of the region. Yet, even as the fruits of this creative South have famously been celebrated, exported, and expropriated, the region long was labeled a cultural backwater. This timely and illuminating collection uses bohemia as a novel lens for reconsidering more traditional views of the South. Exploring wide-ranging locales, such as Athens, Austin, Black Mountain College, Knoxville, Memphis, New Orleans, and North Carolina’s Research Triangle, each essay challenges popular interpretations of the South, while highlighting important bohemian sub- and countercultures. The Bohemian South provides an important perspective in the New South as an epicenter for progress, innovation, and experimentation.Less
From the southern influence on nineteenth-century New York to the musical legacy of late-twentieth-century Athens, Georgia, to the cutting-edge cuisines of twenty-first-century Asheville, North Carolina, the bohemian South has long contested traditional views of the region. Yet, even as the fruits of this creative South have famously been celebrated, exported, and expropriated, the region long was labeled a cultural backwater. This timely and illuminating collection uses bohemia as a novel lens for reconsidering more traditional views of the South. Exploring wide-ranging locales, such as Athens, Austin, Black Mountain College, Knoxville, Memphis, New Orleans, and North Carolina’s Research Triangle, each essay challenges popular interpretations of the South, while highlighting important bohemian sub- and countercultures. The Bohemian South provides an important perspective in the New South as an epicenter for progress, innovation, and experimentation.
William A. Link
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781469611853
- eISBN:
- 9781469612584
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9781469611860_Link
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Few North Carolinians have been as well known or as widely respected as William Friday. The former president of the University of North Carolina (UNC) remained prominent in public affairs in the ...
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Few North Carolinians have been as well known or as widely respected as William Friday. The former president of the University of North Carolina (UNC) remained prominent in public affairs in the state and elsewhere throughout his life, and ranked as one of the most important American university presidents of the post-World War II era. The second edition of this comprehensive biography traces Friday's long and remarkable career and commemorates his legendary life. Friday's thirty years as president of the university, from 1956 to 1986, spanned the greatest period of growth for higher education in American history, and Friday played a crucial role in shaping the sixteen-campus UNC system during that time. The author explores Friday's influential work on nationwide commissions, task forces, and nonprofits, and in the development of the National Humanities Center and the growth of Research Triangle Park. This second edition features a new introduction and epilogue to enrich the narrative, charting the later years of Friday's career and examining his legacy in North Carolina and nationwide.Less
Few North Carolinians have been as well known or as widely respected as William Friday. The former president of the University of North Carolina (UNC) remained prominent in public affairs in the state and elsewhere throughout his life, and ranked as one of the most important American university presidents of the post-World War II era. The second edition of this comprehensive biography traces Friday's long and remarkable career and commemorates his legendary life. Friday's thirty years as president of the university, from 1956 to 1986, spanned the greatest period of growth for higher education in American history, and Friday played a crucial role in shaping the sixteen-campus UNC system during that time. The author explores Friday's influential work on nationwide commissions, task forces, and nonprofits, and in the development of the National Humanities Center and the growth of Research Triangle Park. This second edition features a new introduction and epilogue to enrich the narrative, charting the later years of Friday's career and examining his legacy in North Carolina and nationwide.
Leonard Rogoff
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807833759
- eISBN:
- 9781469604138
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807895993_rogoff.3
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This book recounts stories that speak with different and sometimes contradictory voices. In both format and contents, the book reflects the diversity of its subject. At its core is a narrative ...
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This book recounts stories that speak with different and sometimes contradictory voices. In both format and contents, the book reflects the diversity of its subject. At its core is a narrative history spanning North Carolina's past and present, from Roanoke Island in 1585 to the Research Triangle in 2009. To bring that history to life, interpolated into the narrative are exemplary stories, portraits, and texts. Stories present oral history in original voices; portraits offer profiles of significant personalities or organizations; and texts present primary documents from newspapers, memoirs, and public or synagogue records. Collectively, these gatherings of history comprise a Jewish heritage, a folklore that roots Jews in North Carolina. The book joins a growing list of state Jewish histories; it supports the argument that there are many Souths, but that there are also many North Carolinas.Less
This book recounts stories that speak with different and sometimes contradictory voices. In both format and contents, the book reflects the diversity of its subject. At its core is a narrative history spanning North Carolina's past and present, from Roanoke Island in 1585 to the Research Triangle in 2009. To bring that history to life, interpolated into the narrative are exemplary stories, portraits, and texts. Stories present oral history in original voices; portraits offer profiles of significant personalities or organizations; and texts present primary documents from newspapers, memoirs, and public or synagogue records. Collectively, these gatherings of history comprise a Jewish heritage, a folklore that roots Jews in North Carolina. The book joins a growing list of state Jewish histories; it supports the argument that there are many Souths, but that there are also many North Carolinas.
