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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 University
City, Laura Wolf-Powers chronicles five decades of planning in and
around the communities of West Philadelphia's University City to
illuminate how the dynamics of innovation district development in
the present both depart from and connect to the politics of
mid-twentieth-century urban renewal. Drawing on archival and
ethnographic research, Wolf-Powers concludes that even as
university and government leaders vow to develop without
displacement, what existing residents value is imperiled when
innovation-driven redevelopment remains accountable to the property
market. The book first traces the municipal and institutional
politics that empowered officials to demolish a predominantly Black
neighborhood near the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel
University in the late 1960s to make way for the University City
Science Center and University City High School. It also provides
new insight into organizations whose members experimented during
that same period with alternative conceptions of economic
advancement. The book then shifts to the present, documenting
contemporary efforts to position university-adjacent neighborhoods
as locations for prosperity built on scientific knowledge.
Wolf-Powers examines the work of mobilized civic groups to push
cultural preservation concerns into the public arena and to win
policies to help economically insecure families keep a foothold in
changing neighborhoods. Placing Philadelphia's innovation districts
in the context of similar development taking place around the
United States, University City advocates a reorientation of
redevelopment practice around the recognition that despite their
negligible worth in real estate terms, the time, care, and energy
people invest in their local environments-and in one another-are
precious urban resources.
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