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The Local Economic and Social Impacts of a University

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There have been many studies of the economic impacts of universities over the years. Many of them focused on college towns where the university was the prime economic activity. This chapter focuses on a different case where the university (USC) had a major influence on one neighborhood, not the whole city or region. In fact, the USC economic impact accounts for 0.57 % of the City of Los Angeles gross regional product (GRP), 0.38 % of the County’s GRP and 0.11 % of the State of California’s 0.11 % of GSP (ERA 2009). The chapter focuses on two issues: the economic impact of the university (in terms of output and employment); and the effects of the university’s growth on neighborhood regeneration.

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    In the 1960s USC considered for a time moving out of the neighborhood to a more attractive environment on the lines of Pepperdine University’s decision to locate near the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, California.

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  1. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Mexico, Redmond, WA, USA

    Harry W. Richardson

  2. Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Peter Gordon

  3. Department of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX, USA

    Qisheng Pan

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  1. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Mexico, Redmond, Washington, USA

    Harry W. Richardson

  2. Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, USA

    Qisheng Pan

  3. Department of Urban and Regional Plannin, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA

    JiYoung Park

  4. University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, Los Angeles, California, USA

    James E. Moore II

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Richardson, H.W., Gordon, P., Pan, Q. (2015). The Local Economic and Social Impacts of a University. In: Richardson, H., Pan, Q., Park, J., Moore II, J. (eds) Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Metropolitan Policies. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14322-4_13

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