The role of universities in developing China's university towns: The case of Songjiang university town in Shanghai

Ruoppila, Sampo; Zhao, Feng

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2017.05.011

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“…The construction of the HEMC is not a unique project in China, as its development formed part of a radical expansion of the higher education industry. From 1999 to 2006, over 60 university towns were built around Chinese cities (Ruoppila and Zhao, ). By developing these university towns into ‘satellite towns’ within an agglomeration of universities and other research facilities and resources, the state aimed to modernize Chinese higher education to enable Chinese universities to rank among the world's best (Sum, ).…”

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“…Most of these university towns are located in suburban or rural areas over large areas, whose suburban and rural characteristics have thus been abruptly displaced by modernized and urbanized landscapes. They consist of university campuses and research institutes and tend to encompass residential properties, commercial sites and transportation and other facilities (Ruoppila and Zhao, ). Therefore, university towns can be identified as a typical form of new town construction in the suburbs, which could be considered representative of the entrepreneurial state's ambition to achieve economic productivity, international competitiveness and urban expansion (Sum, ; Wu, ).…”

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Urban Entrepreneurialism Vs Market Society: The Geography of China's Neoliberal Urbanism

Liu¹,

Yau²

2020

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Existing literature on China's neoliberal urbanism is preoccupied with its institutional incentives and political‐economy dynamics, which are characterized by state dominance through sponsorship and supervision of capital‐market operations that drive pro‐growth aspirations and gentrification strategies. Meanwhile, society, confronted with brutal neoliberal production of urban space, is vulnerable to dispossession and displacement. In this article, we draw upon an ethnographic study conducted at the Higher Education Mega Centre (HEMC) of Guangzhou in an attempt to revisit China's neoliberal urbanism beyond the Marxian political‐economy repertoire, and shift the theoretical focus from production to consumption. In an institutionalized neoliberal context, the state–market–society nexus is closely intertwined—a process that manifests itself as the entangling of state and market, the establishment of a market society, the reflexive effects between neoliberalization and Chinese urban entrepreneurialism, and the capital‐centric rule in urban (re)development. In particular, the socioeconomic and sociospatial contradictions in the HEMC case indicate aggressive and insatiable production of urban space, which has been led by the entrepreneurial local state, but is bounded by the market‐oriented and capital‐centric rules of institutionalized neoliberalization. The article concludes by calling for pragmatic reflection on the ‘hard’ neoliberal urbanism of the global South.

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Urban Entrepreneurialism Vs Market Society: The Geography of China's Neoliberal Urbanism

Liu¹,

Yau²

2020

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…However, because the total land area is definite, the enrollment is limited, and the school buildings have been planned and built, this inner approach of intensive use will not really work in the short term. For the regions with concentrated campuses where the school buildings are close to each other, such as in a UT, it is advised to establish the concept of sharing educational land resources, and tap their inter-campus potential, so as to make the limited educational land resources serve the local higher education more effectively and sustainably [48].…”

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Inter-Campus Sharable Potential of Hardware Educational Resources in A University Town: Connotation, Determination Method and A Case Study

Zhang

Zhu

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Sharing educational resources (ERs) among campuses in a university town (UT) could avoid the waste or repeated construction of ERs, which is beneficial to the sustainable utilization of resources. For hardware educational resources (HERs) greatly attached to land resources, whether they have surplus shareable potential is the key factor relating to inter-campus sharing. However, there is a serious lack of definition and quantitative research on HERs' shareable potential. Based on the correlation between land resource utilization and HER sharing, we firstly defined the connotation of inter-campus sharable potential of HERs (ISPHERs), put forward its calculation method and carried out a case study in Longzi Lake UT of Zhengzhou City, Henan province, China. The results show that: (1) ISPHERs could be defined from the perspective of "the best utilization degree" which mainly depended on the utilization and development gap between the present area value and the possible most intensive one under certain conditions; (2) based on the area quota and the students' number, the ISPHERs was calculated by the Delphi and multi-factor model methods;(3) the case study in Longzi Lake UT of Zhengzhou City, Henan province, China showed that the comprehensive ISPHERs was high in the south and low in the north, and the libraries and canteens in five colleges and universities mainly providing vocational skills training were insufficient. If all the 11 campuses could freely share HERs, there would be an overall surplus of the five kinds of HER (i.e., classroom, laboratory, library, indoor sports room and canteen). The comprehensive management framework should include sustainable concept guidance, cooperation system construction, planning control, benefit adjustment and technological innovation, etc.

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“…Studies on university-community partnerships are much more voluminous in Western countries [1,3,5,[18][19][20][21][22][23] than in Asian countries. This is mostly due to the policies and incentives provided to Western universities to encourage community engagement [12,20].…”

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“…This is mostly due to the policies and incentives provided to Western universities to encourage community engagement [12,20]. The few studies that are conducted in Asia, such as those on campus town projects in China [23] and Korea [24], are not often published in English. To date, the limited number of university-community partnerships in the Philippines have not been studied [25].…”

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University-Community Partnerships: A Local Planning Co-Production Study on Calabarzon, Philippines

Lee

Bae

2019

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University-community partnerships provide opportunities for collaborations and meaningful engagement with community partners, in order to promote sustainable community development. To date, studies on university-community partnerships have largely neglected partnership potential and readiness prior to partnership formation. These factors enable expectations and targets to be negotiated and potential problems to be anticipated, prior to any formal collaboration. Hence, this study investigates the optimal preconditions—including environment, resources, and motivation—to facilitate successful university-community collaboration for local urban planning. Specifically, a sample of local government units (LGUs) and universities in the Calabarzon region of the Philippines were interviewed and observed to determine their needs and access to planning resources at universities, as well as factors that would ensure sustained partnerships. The results show that there is a need for university-community partnerships in local planning, since LGUs have limited technical capacity in preparing comprehensive land use plans, particularly with respect to data analysis, technical writing, project development, and hazard mapping. Conversely, LGUs have more financial resources than universities. Local universities were determined to be uniquely suited to meet the technical and human resource needs of LGUs. Importantly, though, previous partnership experience was found to dramatically influence both parties’ decisions regarding whether or not to pursue a partnership. Accordingly, there is a need to temper the desires and expectations of partner organizations, and lay down the foundations of sustainable university-community partnership prior to partnership formation. Toward this end, policies that bolster partnership institutionalization, funding, and systematic monitoring and evaluation systems can enhance the utility of such partnerships moving forward.

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The role of universities in developing China's university towns: The case of Songjiang university town in Shanghai

Cited by 25 publications

References 22 publications

Urban Entrepreneurialism Vs Market Society: The Geography of China's Neoliberal Urbanism

Urban Entrepreneurialism Vs Market Society: The Geography of China's Neoliberal Urbanism

Inter-Campus Sharable Potential of Hardware Educational Resources in A University Town: Connotation, Determination Method and A Case Study

University-Community Partnerships: A Local Planning Co-Production Study on Calabarzon, Philippines

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