Pushing Back the Gates

Harley Etienne is an Assistant Professor, jointly appointed to the City and Regional Planning Program and the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

• Introduction: "Cities and their Universities: Logical Places to Search for Hope"; I: "West Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Rough Road to Revival and Cooperation"; II: "Making University City: The Prolonged Quest for the Diverse and Integrated University Community"; III: "Early Returns on Dramatic Efforts to Change: The West Philadelphia Initiatives, 990-2005"; IV: "The Dual Nature of Revitalization in the 21st Century"; V: "Comparative Views of Contemporary University-Driven Neighborhood Change"; Conclusion: "Lessons from West Philadelphia".

"[B]y posing a challenge to one of higher education's most revered models of university engagement, Etienne has opened the gates for ongoing study of this mostly unexamined yet critical area of activity."-Academe