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The Urban University and its Identity

Roots, Location, Roles

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Herman Wusten

    1. Department of Human Geography, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 45)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. A Warehouse of Precious Goods

    1. A Warehouse of Precious Goods

      • Herman Van Der Wusten
      Pages 1-13

  3. Roots

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Scholarship, Local Life, and the Necessity of Worldliness

      • Thomas Bender
      Pages 17-28

    3. Politics and the University

      • Paul Claval
      Pages 29-46

    4. The World of Arts and the University

      • Jirí Musil
      Pages 47-57

  4. Locations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

      • Arie Shachar
      Pages 61-70

    3. Louvain-La-Neuve: A New City for an Old University

      • Michel Woitrin
      Pages 71-86

    4. Rome: Three Universities in Search of Actors

      • Marinella Ottolenghi, Anna L. Palazzo
      Pages 87-98

    5. Amsterdam, Utrecht, Groningen

      • Jan Groenendijk
      Pages 99-117

  5. Roles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. A Shared Space in a Divided Society

      • Frederick W. Boal, Kathryn Logan
      Pages 121-135

    3. Corrupt Capital, Reformed Academy

      • Timothy B. Weston
      Pages 137-147

    4. Developing and Sustaining an Urban Mission

      • Max Barlow
      Pages 149-166

    5. The University and the City Council

      • Alan Burnett
      Pages 167-185

    6. Urban Change and Institutional Adaptation

      • Jan Nijman
      Pages 187-206
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Human Geography, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Herman Wusten

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Urban University and its Identity

  • Book Subtitle: Roots, Location, Roles

  • Editors: Herman Wusten

  • Series Title: GeoJournal Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5184-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4870-2Published: 31 December 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6181-0Published: 26 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-5184-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-5499

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 206

  • Topics: Human Geography, Sociology, general, History, general

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