Silicon Alley across the metropolitan region, bolstered by the city's emergence as a global node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance, and environmental sustainability, as well as New York's position as the leading Internet hub and telecommunications center in North America, including its vicinity to several transatlantic fiber optic trunk lines, the city's intellectual capital, and its extensive outdoor wireless connectivity. The term "Silicon Alley" was derived from the long established Silicon Valley in California. It was originally centered in the Flatiron District, in the vicinity of the Flatiron Building at Fifth Avenue near Broadway and 23rd Street, straddling Midtown and Lower
The Concentration City The Concentration City "The Concentration City" is a dystopian short story by British author J. G. Ballard, first published, under the title "Build-Up", in "New Worlds" volume 19 number 55 in January 1957. It was reprinted in the collections "Billennium" and "Chronopolis" and later, under its revised title, in "The Disaster Area" and "". "The Concentration City" is set in a "city" encompassing everything in known existence to its inhabitants. The districts comprise endless streets and buildings and seemingly infinitely high and low levels, or floors, with few trees and little wildlife. Cubic space is in shortage and expensive. High