Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Preface: RTP Donuts 1
5. Introduction: From Textiles and Tobacco to the City of Ideas 9
6. 1. Imagining the Triangle: The Unlikely Origins of the Creative City in the Cold War South 23
7. 2. “Not a Second Ruhr”: Building a Postindustrial Economy in the 1960s 49
8. 3. Welcome to Parkwood: Newcomers Find Their Way in the Emerging Triangle 74
9. Interlude: Sweet Gums, Traffic Jams, and Cilantro 99
10. 4. “The Greatest Concentration of PhDs in the Country”: The Idea Economy Comes of Age in the Triangle 103
11. 5. Cary, SAS, and the Search for the Good Life 130
12. Interlude: The Islamic School in Parkwood 159
13. 6. “We Think a Lot”: The Triangle in the Age of Gentrification 163
14. Epilogue: The Figure of the Knowledge Worker 191
15. Notes 199
16. Index 229