The university is increasingly viewed as one of the key institutions of urban development. Where there may have been a time when campus development could have occurred as if the university were an “ivory tower” removed from the “turmoil” of everyday life (Bender, 1988), the institutional importance of academic institution to economic development, local job formation and even to the cultural identity of the city as well as to knowledge formation is now recognized. However important the university may be to ...

This case study examines a campus-community partnership conducted by Clark University, the University Park Partnership. Since 1995, this partnership has focused on improving educational opportunities and other neighborhood amenities for residents of the target zone. The study compares developments in the market for housing inside and outside of the target zone after establishment of the partnership. Although the turnover of properties changed little, owner-occupancy within the target zone increased substan...

In collaboration with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training (ICPLST) decided to invite some of the best thinkers on land and land issues to prepare papers on land-related topics that would be important between the present time and the year 2015. We believe that the papers, now chapters, in this volume have accomplished the initial goal of the conference to encourage decision makers to think about land in the context of a changing world. We think ...

The discussion on the role of universities in the community has come under sharp focus during the last two decades. Universities are increasingly being seen as engines for economic growth and community development. Although an intuitive understanding of the possibilities of positive impact of universities on the community is widely shared, actual research on such impacts is inadequate. In addition, impacts are often understood more in terms of the general economy and much less in terms of impacts on specifi...

This paper examines how school trusts that sell land for urban development may financially benefit by being patient and holding land for the longer term rather than selling it for shorter term gains. Three basic characteristics of the urban land market provide for such benefits including the underlying price path to urban development, real estate cycles, and site rent. In addition, active management and time tranching may be further means by which patience can benefit school trusts in the long run. The resu...

Development decisions made by planners on a daily basis, including those surrounding new development, zoned land uses, densities, building characteristics, parking requirements and others, have significant effects on the fiscal landscapes of their communities. To better understand how our educational system addresses fiscal issues in the training of planners, I surveyed planning instructors from across the United States and Canada and analyzed a series of public finance course syllabi. The following paper ...

This article analyses the impacts derived from the presence of university campuses on land and real estate markets in disperse contexts. Using as case studies the campuses of the University of Brasilia and the Catholic University of Brasilia, the article studies externalities mostly related to the wide accessibility of the campuses in terms of travel time. Using the concepts of magnet and enclave to describe the effects produced, the article examines impacts on land prices in areas from which the main flows...

The paper critically explores the potential for EAH programs to not only meet the needs of universities, but also contribute to the improvement of the communities that reside in “the shadows” of universities. The research seeks to uncover the ways in which EAH programs serve to catalyze relationships between universities and those communities. The authors identify the motivations for and common models of university employer assisted housing (EAH) programs, and use these motivations and models as a framewor...

This paper examines the impact of investments in individual public schools on neighborhood economic development as measured by property values. Specifically, we investigate which specific characteristics of schools are most critical in driving house prices and whether those characteristics matter even for schools which do not use student residence as the sole determinant of admission, which we call ‘choice schools’, and measure the impact of school openings and closings on property values. To study these qu...