Brian Holmes who describes himself as interested in “geopolitics and geopoetics” has an interesting essay on the Research Triangle and its general model of high-tech development.
“We’ve heard a lot in recent years from urbanists and economic
planners about the ‘creative city’, the ‘creative class’ and the
‘creative industries’. To compare facts with fictions, I decided to
take a little tour of one of the urban areas that have been specially
designed to put the creativity into industry.”
The concepts and writing are at times dense. And while there are things I might want to debate, there’s no doubt that he’s providing a different and useful window into the cutting-edge of global capitalism. The full essay is here.
