From "College Town" to Big City

Published: Feb. 6, 2019, 12:39 p.m.

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Aaron Renn\\xa0joins\\xa0City Journal\\xa0associate editor\\xa0Seth Barron\\xa0to discuss how some big public universities are expanding their tech departments to major cities to maximize their economic impact\\u2014creating new political battles in their states.

A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of\\xa0City Journal, Aaron Renn writes on economic development and urban policy in America. "The Tech Campus Moves Downtown," his article examining recent expansions of universities into city centers, appears in the\\xa0Winter 2019 issue\\xa0of\\xa0City Journal.

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