Universities and Cities: Place-Based Anchors of City Development and Individual Accomplishment
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Posted 02.15.2012
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Huffington Post
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The importance of urban research universities is clearly manifest in the scale of the impact, the "footprint," of the university in its city. By late in the last decade, urban research universities were among the top employers in every one of their respective cities.