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I think that's the wrong way of putting it. A university town is a town whose cultural core is a university. Vegas has a mediocre one (UNLV), Seattle has a premium mediocre (UW) one, Austin has a good one (UT Austin), but none is a U-town. Ithaca and Ann Arbor are true U-towns.
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if assume physical ones - yes - by historic context usually they do if you assume topic communities - depends - they are homogeneous in their topic interest - not necessary in other aspects
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South Orange county has aspects of small townness, but is incredibly diverse ethnically. Mostly because it’s extremely non diverse economically
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