Mountain View Annexations, 1940—1990


Like other Bay Area metropolitan areas, Mountain View underwent its own dramatic expansion in the postwar era. Agriculture formed the core economic activity of the city until the early twentieth century, when the construction of the U.S. Navy's Moffet Field Compex in 1931 brought new kinds of employment. Following World War II, the population grew rapidly. Between 1950 and 1960, the population of the city grew from 6,563 to 30,889.

This is a draft. Changes to the text, bibliography, visualization, and so on will be documented here as they occur.

Data Sources

Bibliography

  • Abbott, Carl. Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995.
  • Abbott, Carl. How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
  • Bakken, Gordon Morris, and Brenda Farrington, eds. The Urban West. New York: Garland Pub, 2001.
  • Matthews, Glenna. Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century. Stanford: Stanford University Pres, 2003.

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