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Blue Sky Metropolis
Peter J. Westwick
其他書名
The Aerospace Century in Southern California
出版Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, 2012
主題Business & Economics / Economic ConditionsBusiness & Economics / Industries / ManufacturingBusiness & Economics / Corporate & Business HistoryHistory / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & WelfareSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Regional StudiesTechnology & Engineering / Aeronautics & AstronauticsTechnology & Engineering / HistoryTransportation / Aviation / HistoryTransportation / Aviation / Commercial
ISBN08732824939780873282499
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tmDEsOczNE0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Like citrus, oil, movies, radio, and television, aerospace helped create Southern California and embody its values. Blue Sky Metropolis launches an entirely fresh consideration of an iconic industry that answered the immemorial hunger of the human race for flight and the future."--Kevin Starr, University of Southern California

"Blue Sky Metropolis presents an intriguing survey of a unique time in Southern California history, when cheap land and benign weather lured massive aerospace enterprises to the region—eventually serving as home to nearly half of the nation’s defense and space fabricators. Before there was a Silicon Valley, high-tech dreamers were on the loose in the Southland, creating inventions as diverse as the Voyager planetary spacecraft and the Stealth bomber. These highly readable essays help us understand how it happened—how Southern California shaped aerospace, and vice versa."—Charles Elachi, Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

"Peter Westwick has assembled a rich collection of essays that tell a wonderful story about the importance of the aerospace industry to Southern California and the importance of Southern California to the aerospace industry. There's technology, sociology, economics, geography, anthropology, and much more woven through the chapters. It's an ambitious project, but it succeeds in being interesting, informative, and entertaining."—Michael Rich, President and CEO, The RAND Corporation