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College Towns: Urbanism from a Past Era


How Universities Accidentally Preserved the Walkable America We Demolished Everywhere Else

Our conversation covers his transition from academic publishing to public writing, the challenges facing higher education, and how colleges can better integrate with their communities through thoughtful urban design. Disney's $130 urbanism irony: Disneyland charges visitors to experience the walkable main streets that once existed naturally in every American town before suburban development destroyed them. And when we were 40 years ago or even let's say when the GIs came out of World War II, we had the GI Bill, we really expanded higher education, the boomers came along—we weren't necessarily talking about job readiness per se or not in the same way we were.

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