Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Harley Etienne has published a review of University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District by Laura Wolf-Powers in the Journal of the American Planning Association. 

In [University City],Wolf-Powers provides a fresh and in-depth examination of university–community relations within the broader context of economic development, real estate development, and displacement. For one, she departs from other works in this area by not looking solely at the relationship between one powerful institution and its immediately adjacent neighbors. Instead, she presents a narrative of university-led community initiatives that are occurring in a maelstrom of real estate–driven economic and social change. As Wolf-Powers elegantly shows, that three-way relationship between two universities—the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University—and their neighborhood communities is better understood by considering a larger matrix of powerful real estate interests and complicit city government officials who seem to cheer on university-driven revitalization.

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