July 22, 2005
Penn Seen as a Model for Community Partnerships
For many campus planners, the University of Pennsylvania's development project in West Philadelphia is a fine model of a partnership between an urban university and its neighbors.
University City, a neighborhood adjacent to the campus, was a textbook example of urban decay in the early 1990s, with high poverty and crime rates, and a growing number of abandoned homes and businesses. Then the university began a comprehensive revitalization project, now mostly complete, setting up
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