Valley of Heart's Delight: Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley Todd Anne Marie
Valley of Heart's Delight: Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley Todd Anne Marie This agricultural history explores the transformation of the Santa Clara Valley over the past one…
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Valley of Heart's Delight: Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley Todd Anne Marie
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. Both personal and public rhetoric reveals how a sense of place emerges and changes in an evolving agricultural community like the Santa Clara Valley. In the latter half of the twentieth century, the region's focus shifted from fruits--such as apricots and prunes--to computers.
Todd extends the concept of sense of place to describe Silicon 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.