In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bold Type BooksISBN-13:9781568588926ISBN-10:1568588925UPC:9781568588926Book Category:Social Science, Education, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, Schools, Public PolicyBook Topic:Urban, Levels, City Planning & Urban DevelopmentSize:9.30 x 5.70 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCP7T6T0ME
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
Across America, universities have become big businesses--and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America's cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bold Type BooksISBN-13:9781568588926ISBN-10:1568588925UPC:9781568588926Book Category:Social Science, Education, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, Schools, Public PolicyBook Topic:Urban, Levels, City Planning & Urban DevelopmentSize:9.30 x 5.70 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCP7T6T0ME
Davarian L. Baldwin is a leading urbanist, historian, and cultural critic. The Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and founding director of the Smart Cities Lab at Trinity College, Baldwin is the author of Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (UNC, 2007) and co-editor, with Minkah Makalani, of the essay collection Escape From New...
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