The University as Urban Developer (Book)

Case Studies and Analysis

Editor(s): Perry, David C., and Wim Wiewel
Publication Date: May 2005

$34.95; 352 pages; Inventory ID 641-6; English; Paperback; ISBN 0-7656-1641-6

Abstract

University-based property development is an important element of urban formation. Yet there is little information available to explain the significance of the university presence in urban development and enhance the state of the practice.

Integrating topics in urban development, real estate, higher education administration, urban design and campus landscape architecture, this is the first book to explore the role of the university as urban developer. Accessible and clearly written, and including contributions from authorities in a wide range of related areas, it offers a rich array of case studies and analyses that clarify the important roles that universities play in the growth and development of cities. The cases describe a host of university practices, community responses and policy initiatives surrounding university real estate development. Most of the 17 chapters are in sections titled The Campus and the City: Neighborhood, Downtown, and Citywide Development; and University Development Practices: Acquisition, Finance, Development, and the Deal.

Through a careful blending of academic analysis and practical, hands-on administrative and political information, the book charts new ground in the study of the university and the city. It is the product of a multiyear collaborative project of training, professional development and research by the editors, David C. Perry and Wim Wiewel, in conjunction with the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

The cases presented in the volume are part of a larger set of educational and research endeavors that constitute the Lincoln Institute’s The City, Land and The University Program (http://www.lincolninst.edu/subcenters/clu/).