U.S. cities continue to reinvent themselves and demonstrate economic resiliency. While The University of Maryland-College Park (UMCP) has long had a reputation as a high-class research institution, its status has had a limited impact on the community surrounding it. With the evolving partnership between UMCP and the City of College Park, however, College Park is on the verge of becoming a hub for new innovation in the Washington, DC area.
College Park, and other college towns like it, are on their way to becoming centers of the regional and national innovation economy.
Image: Image produced at the April, 15th 2006 Student Design Charrette at the University of Maryland - Wikimedia Commons
