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a collection of articles about corporate campuses, Company Towns and Economic Development in California, Silicon Valley and San Francisco
BBC, 2017: "Tech giants like Apple are building vastly expensive headquarters – but university-style spaces have been used by companies for decades... (2017)
Cities: one of America’s great cities has a fresh chance to rebuild itself. People feared a doom loop. Reality has been more surprising | Leaders (2024)
Facebook and Google want to build planned communities. A brief spin through history shows why this is a bad idea. (2018)
It's no secret that Facebook employees love their free meals. But this fall when the tech giant moves to its new office complex in Mountain View, C... (2018)
After the city passed a tax on businesses to tackle its housing crisis, corporations mounted a counter-attack. And other cities are watching. (2018)
THE LOS ANGELES regional food bank distributes 300,000 meals a month, but that, says its director, Michael Flood, is only a fraction of what the hu... (2018)
What may be Insta-worthy and a great perk for company employees isn’t so great for the cities that house tech campuses (2018)
The state faces serious and growing climate change-fueled challenges – including wildfires, heatwaves and rolling blackouts. But it’s better equipp... (2020)
How the headquarters of the world's largest social network went from a Harvard dorm room to the vast site it occupies today. For more by The B1M su... (2019)