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Urban universities play an outsized role in America's cities. They gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain large private police forces that target the predominantly Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. And they shape the cultural life of cities.

In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes us on a journey from Hartford to Chicago, from Phoenix to Manhattan, using the stories of ever-expanding campuses to illustrate the increasingly parasitic relationship between higher education and our cities. As scholar and author Davarian L. Baldwin illustrates, urban planners have used the model of the...