Article V
The City Around It
How universities have expanded into, transformed, and sometimes displaced the neighbourhoods they occupy.
- Article
- V
- Clauses
- 4
- Numbering
- 5.1 – 5.4
- Field
- The City Around It
Clauses under this Article
In numbered order
- 5.1 The Largest Landowner on the Block Documents how several major American universities became dominant property owners in their cities through purchase, bequest, and development — and how that ownership has been used, leased, and occasionally contested by neighbours and municipalities.
- 5.2 Property Off the Tax Roll Explains how nonprofit tax exemption removes university land from the municipal property-tax base, what PILOT agreements (payments in lieu of taxes) are and how common they are, and the documented fiscal consequences for host cities.
- 5.3 Before the Research Park Looks at a handful of documented cases where university-adjacent research and technology parks were built on land that was previously residential or industrial neighbourhood, and what the record shows about displacement and land-use change.
- 5.4 The Streets the University Platted Examines cases where universities were not displacing existing neighbourhoods but creating them — laying out streets, selling lots, shaping the architecture of the blocks immediately outside the campus wall. A counterweight to the displacement narrative.