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In 1978, the New Yorker magazine's famous ‘Talk of the Town’ column carried an interview with Joshua Lederberg. The Stanford University geneticist and Nobel Laureate had just assumed the presidency of Rockefeller University, a distinguished centre of scientific research and graduate training. He was asked how it felt after many years in suburban California to return to the city of his youth. What he said was a mixture of nostalgia and insight into the nature of cities, universities, and creativity.
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Bender, T. (1998). Scholarship, Local Life, and the Necessity of Worldliness. In: van der Wusten, H. (eds) The Urban University and its Identity. The GeoJournal Library, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5184-9_2
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