Isbn: 9780792348702 - the urban university and its identity: roots, location, roles (geojournal library, 45, band 45) (5 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. This volume explores the history of the urban university and its political and cultural traditions. Case studies taken from the West and China analyze the locations of the universities within cities and the ways in which their administrators present the university in the local political arena. Editor(s): Wusten, Herman van der. Series: Geojournal Library. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNM; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 488. . 1997. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The chapters in this book are revised versions of papers initially presented at a confer ence on Universities and their cities held in Amsterdam on March 27-29 1996. There were about one hundred participants and 45 written contributions from Europe, the US, Canada and Australia. People with different disciplinary backgrounds, geographers, historians, sociologists, economists and planners among them, attended, as did a few university administrators and local government officials. The intricate relationships between universities and their cities were intensively debated from the perspective of possible contributions by the university to city life as well as from the angle of the city as a milieu that affects the university's functioning. There were theoretical and historical papers, and a series of case studies, some of them comparative, as well as proposals and descriptions of efforts to improve city-university relations. It was a fruitful occasion for many on account of the diversity of experience brought together for the purpose of a debate on a matter of common interest. The vari ous university settings within Amsterdam were visited during a guided tour that pro vided food for thought on the matters under discussion by means of a living example.…