From the urban university to universities in urban society

Addie, Jean‐Paul D.

doi:10.1080/00343404.2016.1224334

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“…The authors show how the development of urban space and urban infrastructure is carried out by the universities [18], how the lobbying takes place, and how the political support in the urban community is being received by the universities [19]. In addition, universities that have adopted the role of economic drivers and civic leaders, mitigate social contradictions that are present in the urban community [20].…”

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Universities and Cities in Provincial Russia

Зборовский

Ambarova

2019

Vysš. obraz. Ross. (Print)

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The analysis of higher education (HE) inRussiafocuses on the complicated issues of the relationships between higher education institutions (HEIs) and provincial cities. The authors characterize different typologies of Russian HEIs and cities. It is suggested to distinguish between the HEIs related to the core of HE, semi-periphery, and to the periphery. The situation of peripheral HEIs that are located mainly in provincial cities seems to be the most complicated. Recently, about 300 HEIs and more than 800 branches of universities, a significant part of which belongs to the peripheral group, ceased to exist autonomously. Today the fate of some other provincial HEIs is yet to be defined. Meanwhile, the future of the young people is also tied to the HEIs’s destiny as well as the future of the cities’ population, where they are located. The analysis of the materials based on the authors’ empirical research conducted in the Ural Federal District (UFD) revealed that the elimination of autonomous universities, their transformation into branches and weakening in such a way of the HE in the medium, big and even large cities of the Russian province lead to stagnation and depression of these cities. One of the main factors of this situation is the mass educational migration of young people. The study discusses certain ideas for positive solution of these problems regarding the relationship of provincial Russian universities and cities, which could lead to their preservation and development.

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Universities and Cities in Provincial Russia

Зборовский

Ambarova

2019

Vysš. obraz. Ross. (Print)

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“…Indeed, Castells and Hall (1994: 11), after reviewing some of the world-famous science spaces, concluded that 'most of the world's actual high-technology production and innovation still comes from … the great metropolitan areas of the industrialized world'. Little wonder, then, that specially designated science cities and parks of the campus-garden-suburb mould have become increasingly exposed to a change in the zeitgeist regarding the relationship between science and the city (Addie, 2016;Charles, 2015;Phelps et al, 2014).…”

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Knowledge economy challenges for the post-developmental state: Tsukuba Science City as an in-between place

Miao

2018

Town Planning Review

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This paper examines the planning history and current planning challenges facing Tsukuba Science City. Drawing on original empirical material, it suggests that Tsukuba can be seen as an in-between place in three respects. Tsukuba began life as an instance of the international garden-campus-suburb orthodoxy surrounding science spaces, and now falls somewhere inbetween an independent city and a suburb of greater Tokyo. Tsukuba's predicament in this regard is intimately related to the broader policy challenges facing Japan as it transitions from a developmental to a post-developmental state. Chief among these challenges is effectively inserting a science city like Tsukuba into an increasingly globalized 'New Argonaut' market for skilled labour. I make use of Appadurai (1996)'s notion of 'scapes' to interpret Tsukuba as an in-between place but also to highlight the practical challenges of it securing a central position within the global science landscape of modernity.

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“…As some of the evidence gathered above confirms, BSOs are still emerging and developing in cities, so their particular contribution to cities needs to be further, and more important systematically, assessed. Issues about public–private cooperation are central, but the role of research and education institutions, and universities first of all, cannot be underplayed (Addie, ). Functional questions also arise.…”

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Informing urban governance? Boundary‐spanning organisations and the ecosystem of urban data

Acuto

Steenmans

Iwaszuk

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In urban policy there is an increasing emphasis on the management and sharing of information in and about cities. This paper focuses on external sharing practices which are facilitated by boundary-spanning organisations. Boundary-spanning organisations are hybrid structures that provide a platform to link internal networks of the city government with external actors, and in particular focus on engaging various types of stakeholders. The paper offers a preliminary assessment of a sample of boundary-spanning organisations based across six case studies (Barcelona, Chicago, London, Medellin, Mexico City and Seoul) and across three types of BSOs: living labs, innovation districts and sector-oriented BSOs.Unpacking the shape and development of BSOs, and "placing" them in urban governance, we begin to sketch a preliminary agenda geared to offer a better appreciation of the "information ecosystem" underneath policy-making in cities. K E Y W O R D Sboundary-spanning organisation, information ecosystem, innovation districts, living lab, smart cities, urban governance | AN "INFORMED CITIES" PARADIGM?After a steady rise in popularity across policy and academia, "data" is very much at the heart of urban issues, if not a paradigm shift in how we conceive of urban governance. This data-driven view has become a dominant rhetoric in many local, national and international fora concerned with urban matters in both the Global South and North -as recently testified in major United Nations processes from the Habitat III summit to the UN World Data Forum. At the latter, the UN recognised in its Cape Town Global Action Plan how "quality and timely data are vital for enabling governments" to make "informed decisions" as today's global sustainable development agendas "require the collection, processing, analysis and dissemination of an unprecedented amount of data and statistics at local, national, regional and global levels and by multiple stakeholders." 1 From the lures of the smart city to the rise of indexing and reporting about cities and the vast impact of philanthropic investments, then, what we might call an "informed cities" paradigm of data-driven urban discussions is one of the most defining discussions in urban policy-making of our time. It feeds a widespread belief in data as key ingredient to urban policy, from competitiveness, to good governance, accountability and transparency (Hordijk & Baud, 2006;Sotarauta, 2016), as well as in the "information"-intensive advantages brought about by information-intensive sectors, products and activities (Carillo, 2011). The "informed cities" paradigm seems to be more than just a fad and is likely to influence policy in the years to come. As Nigel Thrift (2014) noted, the promises of urban informatics and data-driven urbanism, whetherThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The information, practices and views in this article are...

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From the urban university to universities in urban society

Cited by 65 publications

References 46 publications

Universities and Cities in Provincial Russia

Universities and Cities in Provincial Russia

Knowledge economy challenges for the post-developmental state: Tsukuba Science City as an in-between place

Informing urban governance? Boundary‐spanning organisations and the ecosystem of urban data

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