Davarian L Baldwin, "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" (Bold Type Press, 2021)
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Greenwich Village vs. The University of New York
In both cases, you have very strong community boards that explicitly said, we do not support the plans as demonstrated or outlined by the universities. Both call them company town projects, which is interesting. The problem is that in both cases, community boards are advisory. They don't have legislative power. And on top of that, they might not even be there to benefit from it because it doesn't say jobs for the existing residents or increased tax revenue for the existing resident. It could be the residents that come to work on these projects, the professors, the researchers, the students, et cetera. So this becomes the story of democracy denied a and in the case of columbia,
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