One big thing this article overlooks is that colleges are free to ban anti-social people from their campus. Cities are not. There are fairly string rules for c

One big thing this article overlooks is that colleges are free to ban anti-social people from their campus. Cities are not. There are fairly string rules for college and if you step over the line, you can be expelled and trespassed from campus with much lower burden of proof than a criminal trial. I have noticed as density of a people living together goes up, there is more need for conformity. Singapore and Japan have some of the nicest high density cities in the world, but they also have one of the highest rates of people being conformant. One final issue is pandemics. College campuses have had a horrible rate of transmission when students have been there, so much in fact that a lot of schools kept students from returning to campus for schooling making them take online classes.