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The suburban office park that launched Silicon Valley
Stanford built one of the first office parks in the country. Tech pioneers swooped in.
About 60 years earlier, railroad tycoon Leland Stanford had founded the university on his stock farm in Palo Alto, a sparsely populated town in a region where apricot and peach trees outnumbered houses. They wanted to separate management from their union laborers and to ply white collar workers with ample parking, verdant landscaping, and country club amenities, like tennis courts and walking trails — the modern predecessors of the ping-pong table. These companies believed in a “purported magic of gazing at greenness,” wrote University of California, Berkeley landscape architecture professor Louise Mozingo in “Campus, Estate, and Park: Lawn Culture Comes to the Corporation.
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