대학과 도시재생 : 필라델피아 ‘대학도시(University City)’의 사례

Abstract

This paper explores a history of urban renewal in ‘University City,’ the neighborhood in West Philadelphia. It discusses how the University of Pennsylvania, one of the largest residents in the region, used the federal and state housing and redevelopment laws to expand its campus and to better the space they resided. Since 1949, the university leaders named the area around campus ‘University City’ and led the university-driven renovation and development of the town. In its efforts to improve the conditions of the neighborhood, the university also encouraged faculties and students to move into University City and offered community services to people in the area. However, the betterment was not without the sacrifice of the locals who could not survive through the change. As a result, the university, now boasting the better, renovated, and more expensive campus and town, is not free from the charges of causing gentrification in West Philadelphia.