By Herman Van Der Wusten (auth.), Herman van der Wusten (eds.)
The chapters during this e-book are revised types of papers in the beginning offered at a confer ence on Universities and their towns held in Amsterdam on March 27-29 1996. there have been approximately 100 individuals and forty five written contributions from Europe, the USA, Canada and Australia. individuals with diverse disciplinary backgrounds, geographers, historians, sociologists, economists and planners between them, attended, as did a number of collage directors and native executive officers. The problematic relationships among universities and their towns have been intensively debated from the point of view of attainable contributions by means of the college to urban existence in addition to from the perspective of town as a milieu that is affecting the university's functioning. there have been theoretical and ancient papers, and a sequence of case experiences, a few of them comparative, in addition to proposals and outlines of efforts to enhance city-university family. It used to be a fruitful get together for plenty of because of the variety of expertise introduced jointly for the aim of a debate on an issue of universal curiosity. The vari ous college settings inside Amsterdam have been visited in the course of a guided journey that professional vided nutrients for notion at the concerns lower than dialogue via a dwelling example.
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Stanford, by contrast, turned to its immediate region, and was willing to associate itself with the practical and commercial concerns of such recent graduates as David Packard. The result was a vital symbiosis of university and local surround, which resulted in Silicon Valley and the elevation THE NECESSITY OF WORLDLINESS 25 of Stanford to the first rank of universities in the United States (Leslie, Kingdon, and Schoenberger 1993). But what do I mean by a university of the city? As my opening remarks should have indicated, to be of the city is not to be assimilated to the city.
Looking at the emerging social sciences as a whole, one might well stress this point, but Low's approach was different. At the same time as he supported the new aca- 24 THOMAS BENDER demic discipline, he invited workers to offer to the academy their own views of social conditions. He would be glad to 'have it known to the workingmen of America', he announced, that 'at Columbia College ... the disposition exists to teach the truth ... without fear or favor, and we ask their aid to enable us to see the truth as it appears to them'.
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