University Towns Archive
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Universities finally building urban villages… on campus: Most students at university campuses either don’t need to drive, don’t need
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Coolest college towns’ and their ‘killer apps: While Travel + Leisure busts out their America’s Coolest College Towns list,
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University towns fare well in recessions: How can your city best weather an economic downturn? Based on research,
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How to’ for university students crowdsourcing creative cities: In the previous entry we looked at the importance and logic of
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Crowdsourcing university students for creative cities: Let’s see, at universities and colleges there are thousands of creative, innovative
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AZ’s university research center aims at innovation: Arizona doesn’t exactly have a reputation for placemaking, but Arizona State University
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Rural colleges going urban?: Should rural universities even think about going urban? In our customer-driven economy
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Universities + creative class = jobs, culture: Many of us enjoy that college town feel of a pedestrian-oriented urban
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Philadelphia’s ‘One Big Campus’ to attract/retain jobs, creatives: Pennsylvania hasn’t exactly been at the top of the list in states
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The evolved university research park – the research village (pt. 2): So why is the University of South Carolina’s Innovista (profiled yesterday) worthy
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The evolved university research park – the research village (pt. 1): We’re all familiar with university research parks – they look just like
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Help! University needs town center immediately!: Of the accepted applicants to the University of Connecticut each year, about
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Behind a progressive city is often a progressive university: Universities grow the economy, but they also advance change for a higher
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Syracuse, NY – one of many downtown success stories: While yesterday’s entry presented national evidence of the downtown movement, what about
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From abandoned industrial district to cool university village: What to do with a desolate, unsafe, blighted industrial district of empty
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Universities getting serious about retail: A University Business Magazine article on retail states that young people spent
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Easing the transition from university to the ‘real world: What good is a college town if the students leave right after
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“College towns make the grade with entrepreneurs”: Here’s yet further research that college towns are key centers for economic
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Johns Hopkins’ urban research village: Universities are starting to respond to the long-time reality that people simply
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Columbia University’s very urban village: Seeking to grow, but with no room to do so, Columbia University
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ASU’s grand university town vision: The most vibrant, thriving town centers and main streets occur near universities,
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Columbus gets a cool university village: In continuation of yesterday’s entry on built examples of the ‘next university’,
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Built examples of the future of universities: In 2003 I presented a vision for how contemporary universities will blend
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The creative side of Ann Arbor: Kerrytown: Ann Arbor is the final stop in the CoolTown five-city tour, and
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Why some universities charge more than others…: …even though the educational talent is similar? Because they can. Students are
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Burlington – Best of the big city and small town: If it wasn’t for the unrelenting, frigid winters, Burlington would be too
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What makes Athens, Georgia so darn unique?: So of course, tonight we asked the University of Georgia students, especially
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Madison, Wisconsin – Where pedestrians truly come first: Madison, Wisconsin regularly tops the Best Places to Live list, and even
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Central Square: Great venues, so-so urban design: The live music hangout in Cambridge, MA is in Central Square, the
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