Davarian L Baldwin, "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" (Bold Type Press, 2021)
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Colleges and Universities in the Cold War Period
Universities had a hand in maintaining and managing relationships between government and corporate power since the beginning of this country. This consolidation becomes most clear during the cold war period, wher you have the rise of what senator j william fulbright originally called in 67, the military industrial academic complex. But there was a parallel phenomena on the home front, where higher education also became friendly face for herbe renewal. So citiesall over the country scramble to create erb reneal projects that were acted to higher education institutions. These sterved a very clear function for schools that were facing what people like thompson gre at others, have call the urban crisis.
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