Davarian L Baldwin, "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" (Bold Type Press, 2021)
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University Cities in the Eighties and Nineties
In the nineties, cities were competing with each other for this vital tax pace. Universities that are getting less money from states also need new revenue streams. So they retrofit neighborhood blocks into verges of campus as a mechanism of wealth maintenance and extraction. This had profoundly detrimental impacts on residents that were already living in these blocks,. largely black, round and working class. But you get the plant, yes?
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