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Before Silicon Valley there was Ridge Avenue in Philadelphia, a glider factory in St. Paul and a laboratory in Norwalk, Connecticut. The first American computers were built in places that made typewriters and aircraft parts, by companies that no longer exist, in towns that do.
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A single employer could build a town's housing, fund its schools and set its rhythm for a century. When the industry moved or died, the town remained. Local history is largely the history of that relationship.
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Aircraft, satellites and volunteers with measuring tapes are producing the first precise maps of urban canopy. The maps show that shade, like most things in cities, is unevenly distributed.
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