It’s Time to Blur the Boundaries Between Town and Gown

Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University. Image © Josh HallettThis article was originally published on Common Edge.In London, where I live, there are 23 universities. Those universities make up an institutional population of nearly half a million people. In a city with almost 10 million residents, 5% may seem a small number, but it’s a significant one, roughly the population of Atlanta. Shrink the city, and the proportion can increase d