DigitalSciGuy
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Building dorms in the city seems as difficult as building high in the city. Neighborhood after neighborhood screams and moans about the students living among them but whenever a school announces plans to build dorms, the same neighborhoods (BC, Northeastern, Suffolk as I remember all had to jump through hoops or drastically change building plans) scream bloody murder about height or location or numbers, etc. It's amazing to me.
Clearly, this means that the colleges should be rebuilt as massive Pentagon-style landscrapers that are instead designed to keep the kids in rather than keep people out. Inside these collegiate Pentagons, there will be all the amenities, city services, lecture halls, and housing. The roofs would have all the green space required for sports and recreation. Each Pentagon would be connected to each other by a duplicate subway but only for the colleges, like the US Capitol Subway.
I'm sure they'd like that better than 20-30-storey dorm towers. I mean, it addresses the height issue and gets the kids out of their neighbourhoods!