id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_5a2b7lc6fbefziv7irmpevvtgy Margaret P. O'Mara Beyond town and gown: university economic engagement and the legacy of the urban crisis 2010.0 17 .pdf application/pdf 10378 898 48 economic and social impacts of urban universities, in part because some of this data is best Universities are major urban employers, having grown their job base during a halfcentury period when jobs emptied out of American central cities. economic and social impact of universities in American urban areas because it can capture In the first decade of the urban renewal, universities in the New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh regions became active participants and partners with local governments in urban renewal construction programs in or near their campuses (Parsons and The growth in urban research had paralleled that of university land development programs, and it had been fueled by the same funding. Housing and Urban Development, engaged university-based researchers in technical around university-based urban research programs. The education of students, rather than community service programs or economic spillovers, has been the university activity with perhaps the biggest The urban university and the future of our cities (1st ed.). ./cache/work_5a2b7lc6fbefziv7irmpevvtgy.pdf ./txt/work_5a2b7lc6fbefziv7irmpevvtgy.txt