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University Park, TX
University Park takes its name directly from Southern Methodist University, whose main campus sits almost entirely within the small town's borders — a genuinely unusual arrangement in which a private university's campus occupies a substantial share of the land area of the independent municipality surrounding it. Like its twin town Highland Park, University Park incorporated as its own independent city specifically to remain outside Dallas's municipal boundaries even as the larger city grew to completely surround both towns, and the two together form the "Park Cities," sharing a combined school district, the Highland Park Independent School District, despite each maintaining separate city governments. SMU's campus brings a genuine college-town element to University Park's identity, with the university's Meadows Museum housing one of the most significant collections of Spanish art outside of Spain itself, and campus events and athletics drawing visitors into the town well beyond its own roughly 25,000 residents. University Park's combination of hosting a major private university's entire main campus, shared independent-city status alongside Highland Park, and a top-ranked shared school district has made it one of the most academically and architecturally distinctive small towns anywhere in the Dallas metropolitan area.
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Highland Park, TX
Highland Park is a fully independent municipality entirely surrounded by the city of Dallas, and it's consistently ranked among the wealthiest small towns in the entire state of Texas — a status the town has maintained since its founding in the early 20th century as a deliberately upscale, deed-restricted development built specifically to stay outside Dallas's own city limits and taxing authority. Highland Park Village, opened in 1931, is widely credited by architectural and retail historians as one of the first planned shopping centers built anywhere in the United States, designed in a unified Spanish Mediterranean style that's been preserved essentially intact for nearly a century and now houses a roster of high-end luxury retailers. The town sits directly adjacent to Southern Methodist University, and together with its twin municipality, University Park, forms what locals refer to collectively as "the Park Cities" — two small, independently governed towns that function almost as a single community despite maintaining entirely separate city governments, police departments, and school districts. Highland Park's combination of complete municipal independence from Dallas, one of the earliest planned shopping centers in American retail history, and consistently top-ranked schools has made it one of the most expensive and prestigious small-town addresses anywhere in Texas.
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