In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
- Title
- In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
- Creator
- Davarian L. Baldwin
- Description
- In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power—and who is made vulnerable. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities. (Bold Type Books)
- Publisher
- Bold Type Books
- Date
- 2021
- Format
- book
- Link
- www.worldcat.org
- CLIO Link
- clio.columbia.edu
- Source
- Baldwin, Davarian L. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities. New York, NY: Bold Type Books, 2021. [Especially Chapter 3, pages 87-108]