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Anchoring Innovation Districts: The Entrepreneurial University and Urban Change
In the spring of 2017, I had an opportunity to learn about Technology Square (Tech Square) in Midtown, Atlanta. I spent a year as part of a fellowship at Georgia Institute of Technology in the Office of the Provost. Tech Square was a university initiative that...
Confronting Workplace Disasters
Havoc and Reform: Workplace Disasters in Modern America arose organically from my previous book, Vegas at Odds: Labor Conflict in a Leisure Economy, 1960-1985 (both published by Johns Hopkins). I was working on the latter project, reading old newspapers on a...