University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District

A chronicle of neighborhood redevelopment politics in West Philadelphia over 60 years

In twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers increasingly celebrate university-sponsored innovation districts as engines of inclusive growth. But the story is not so simple. In UniversityCity, Laura Wolf-Powers chronicles five decades of planning in and around the communities of West Philadelphia’s UniversityCity to illuminate how the dynamics of innovation district development in the present both...