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The New York Times' Sewell Chan has a very good article about university expansion in New York City, and all of the benefits and pitfalls that town and gown relationships can entail in a big city trying to encourage big development.

I noticed a number of connections with our recent discussions about Penn Praxis and the role of city planning, and of course, the idea of creating a new university campus in the city of Philadelphia. Basically, universities can be tremendous engines of economic growth and cultural value, but (as with every enterprise) only if smart planning keeps their growth within a broader vision of city neighborhoods and development.

Judith Rodin, former president of Penn and now president of the Rockefeller Foundation, is quoted at length (making the article nearly as much about Philadelphia as it is about New York):