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Providence mayor calls University a ‘model’ of how schools should behave in urban areas

It’s not just University officials who are praising Penn’s urban-development initiatives these days. Yesterday, it was mayors from across the country.

During a three-day conference about universities’ relationships with their cities, Providence, R.I., Mayor David Cicilline said that Penn has been "the model of the way universities and cities can work together."

Though University City is sometimes criticized for high crime rates and gentrification, participants in the Mayors’ Institute on City Design agreed that Penn’s relationship with Philadelphia is exemplary.

The 19-year-old Mayors’ Institute holds yearly national symposiums on city design. But this is the first time the Institute has held a conference on city partnerships with universities.

Mayors from Providence, Salt Lake City, Miami, Pasadena, Calif., and Bethlehem, Pa., traveled with their city’s university leaders to Philadelphia for the sessions.

By deena greenberg

Full Story: http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/11/18/437d8ded9f15d

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