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Integrating topics in urban development, real estate, higher education administration, urban design, and campus landscape architecture, this is the first book to explore the role of the university as developer. Accessible and clearly written, and including contributions from authorities in a wide range of related areas, it offers a rich array of case studies and analyses that clarify the important roles that universities play in the growth and development of cities. The cases describe a host of university practices, community responses, and policy initiatives surrounding university real estate development. Through a careful blending of academic analysis and practical, hands-on administrative and political information, the book charts new ground in the study of the university and the city.

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• List of Tables, Figures, and Maps
• Foreword
• Preface
• Part 1 Introduction
• 1 From Campus to City: The University as Developer
• Part 2 The Campus and the City: Neighborhood, Downtown, and Citywide Development
• Section 1 The Campus and Its Neighborhood
• 2 The University of Pittsburgh and the Oakland Neighborhood: From Conflict to Cooperation, or How the 800-Pound Gorilla Learned to Sit with--and not on--Its Neighbors
• 3 Columbia University's Heights: An Ivory Tower and Its Communities
• 4 The University of Chicago and Its Neighbors: A Case Study in Community Development
• Section 2 The University and the Central City
• 5 The Urban University as a Vehicle for Inner-City Renewal: The University of Washington, Tacoma
• 6 Auraria Higher Education Center and Denver Inner-City Development
• 7 The Political Strategies Behind University-Based Two Philadelphia Cases
• Section 3 The University as a Collaborator in Urban Development
• 8 The University as an Engine for Downtown Renewal in Atlanta
• 9 University Involvement in Downtown Revitalization: Managing Political and Financial Risks
• 10 Ryerson University and Toronto's Dundas Square Metropolis Project
• Part 3 University Development Practices: Acquisition, Finance, Development, and the Deal
• 11 An Overview of University Real Estate Investment Practices
• 12 Leasing for Profit and Control: The Case of Victoria University at the University of Toronto
• 13 The Little Fish Swallows the Big Fish: Financing the DePaul Center in Chicago
• 14 No Such Thing as Vacant Land: Northeastern University and Davenport Commons
• 15 Campus Partners and The Ohio State University: A Case Study in Enlightened Self-Interest
• Part 4 Lessons Learned
• 16 Private Choices and Public Obligations: The Ethics of University Real Estate Development
• 17 Ivory Towers No More: Academic Bricks and Sticks
• About the Editors and Contributors
• About the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
• Index

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These volumes provide timely introductions to issues surrounding US universities as urban growth machines. The essays in The University as Urban Land Developer offer multiple North American case studies; Promise and Betrayal provides an insider's view of off-campus initiatives of the University of Louisville since the 1990s, raising questions about university-community partnerships. Together they provide complementary historical and social visions, illuminating institutions and growth strategies. Perry and Wiewel's selections balance Ivy League universities (Columbia, Penn), religious colleges (DePaul, Marquette, Victoria [Toronto]), and public institutions (Georgia State, Temple, Ohio State). Essays on new initiatives in Tacoma and Denver complement those on older institutions in transition (Temple, Pittsburgh). Authors representing planning departments, university executives, and the private sector explain different developmental strategies, especially in dealing with community opposition and leveraged funding. Individual sections (on neighborhoods, central cities, collaboration, development practices) explore sometimes-similar success stories. The synthetic introduction and conclusions highlight common themes. Gilderbloom and Mullins provide a hands-on perspective on one public university's initiatives in predominantly African American poor neighborhoods through federal funding and multiple partnerships encompassing jobs, education, leadership, design, and community development. Their text reworks reports and correspondence, resulting in repetition and a sometimes-jarring style that mingles advice, evaluation, and general observations. Both books lack critical distance; even the more academic case studies rarely incorporate voices or viewpoints from outside the university and associated elites with which they work. References to "the community" also become disturbing when changes from protest to cooperation are embedded in gentrification and replacement. Nor do these studies grapple fully with evolutions of the universities themselves--their funding, curriculum, and politics--since the 1960s. Nevertheless, such clearly drawn and complex cases reveal universities' potential, and limits, in contemporary urbanism and development. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. General readers; professionals in related fields; all university levels. G. W. McDonogh Bryn Mawr College