Isbn: 9781568588926 - in the shadow of the ivory tower: how universities are plundering our cities (6 Ergebnisse)

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Across America, universities have become big businessesand 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. Butthey also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages.In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students' needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university powerand who is made vulnerable.In the Shadow of the Ivory Toweris a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.…