From the ground up

By Goodwin Steinberg, Goodwin B Steinberg, Susan Wolfe

Subjects: Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.), Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County), Architecture / General, History, Microelectronics industry, california, santa clara valley (santa clara county), California - Local History, History - General, Regional & Area Planning, Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clar, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, U.S. Architecture - General, Santa clara county (calif.), Architecture, united states, USA, Architecture, Regional planning, California, history, local, 20th Century Architecture, California, United States - State & Local - General, General, 20th century

Description: "Architect Goodwin Steinberg presents an insider's view of the development of Silicon Valley - what went right, what went wrong, and how conditions conspired to create the high technology capital of the world. Enlivened by anecdotal brushes with Silicon Valley's influential and famous, this is the illustrated (including over 65 color illustrations) personal story of a man whose fifty-year career - and thousands of architectural projects - helped transform an area of farms and ranches known as The Valley of Heart's Delight to the economic engine named Silicon Valley."--BOOK JACKET.