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The Urban University and Its Identity. Roots, Location, Roles.
Herman Van Der . Ed(S): Wusten
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Hardback. 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.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
Series
Geojournal Library
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792348702
SKU
V9780792348702
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