Universities as city-builders: The city-campus development opportunity in East London–Buffalo City, South Africa

Bank, Andrew; Sibanda, Francis

doi:10.1080/0376835x.2018.1502076

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“…Once they have assimilated into the system, the content of the curriculum promotes capitalism rather than community upliftment and they tend to perceive the indigenous communities in which they were raised as research subjects rather than reservoirs of knowledge (Bunting 2004). Universities should be relevant to the places where they are based and collaborate with local communities even though their mission may be global (Bank and Sibanda 2018).…”

Section: Class Struggle and Social Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Positioning the #FeesMustFall Movement within the Transformative Agenda: Reflections on Student Protests in South Africa

Ntombana

Gwala

Sibanda

2023

EaC

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This article reflects on the successes and failures of student protests in transforming higher education in South Africa through a Marxist lens. The slow pace of change by the government in addressing structural and systemic inequalities has led to disgruntlement within the student body. In their quest to hasten the process, students engaged in protests across the country, inspired by the #RhodesMustFall movement. This article outlines the problematic areas that have led to the unrest and reflects on the #FeesMustFall movement: the lessons learnt and its impact on contemporary higher education. The reflection further unpacks what it means to be a student in South Africa and how the learning process shapes and is shaped by the student movements within universities. The study reviewed existing literature on the #FeesMustFall movement to better understand the influence of student protests on government policy and to evaluate whether any protest-based changes have occurred in higher education in South Africa.

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Section: Class Struggle and Social Justicementioning

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Positioning the #FeesMustFall Movement within the Transformative Agenda: Reflections on Student Protests in South Africa

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Gwala

Sibanda

2023

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“…This means the larger the land, the more expensive it is expected to be. Therefore, affordable areas of the city would be preferred to be able to purchase a large area suitable for the scale of the university especially for public and national universities which are known to have limited funds [23], [24]. For optional criteria, MXI was used as an urban index that represents the degree of mixed land uses in an area based on nine different levels: mono housing, mono amenities, mono working, bifunctional (housing + amenities), bifunctional (housing + working), bifunctional (amenities + working), mix 10% amenities + housing + working, mix 20% amenities + housing + working, and mix 30% amenities + housing + working [25].…”

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Where to build? A suitability modelling approach for university campuses location-allocation in Japan

Ahmed M.S. Mohammed,

Ukai

2023

Proceedings of International Exchange and Innovation Conference on Engineering &Amp; Sciences (IEICES)

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This research underscores the impact of university campuses, encompassing physical, economic, cultural, and social dimensions of their surroundings. Consequently, the selection of a suitable campus location should consider both the physical appropriateness and the preferences of key users, namely the students. This paper presents a suitability model employing the geographical information system (GIS) weighted overlay methodology to address this concern. The model employs criteria such as land use, land value, accessibility, and the mix of land uses to identify appropriate locations for university campuses in four Japanese cities. Findings reveal that suitable sites are predominantly found in the suburban areas of these cities, potentially leading to a studentification trend and social segregation between students and nonstudent residents. Additionally, placing campuses on city peripheries could strain university resources by incurring higher infrastructure costs. Therefore, decision-makers must carefully weigh location suitability against the ensuing social and economic implications to foster a successful campus-city relationship.

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“…However, due to their physical and economic impact on the surroundings, they started to be recognized as a driving force of urban development as well. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, research has considered university campuses to be as extensive landholders that are capable of changing the urban morphology of their surroundings in a significant way (Larkham 2000;Bank and Sibanda 2018). Moreover, university campuses have also shown to be accompanied by social, cultural, physical, and economic changes happening in their surroundings .…”

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Agent-based modelling for spatiotemporal patterns of urban land expansion around university campuses

Mohammed

Ukai²

2022

Model. Earth Syst. Environ.

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University campuses are known to be accompanied by physical and economic spatiotemporal patterns that contribute to the urban land expansion process of their respective cities. Therefore, this paper assesses the impact brought by Kyushu University's Ito campus on the urban land expansion process of Fukuoka City since its establishment. First, ArcGIS software was used to develop urbanity raster maps by aggregating space syntax, spacematrix, and mixed-use index maps. Then, Netlogo software was used to create the simulation model using urbanity maps. Furthermore, agents for simulating the urban land expansion process were created based on developers' behavior retrieved from the literature and real-world observed data. Proposed model has been verified by conducting a sensitivity analysis and checking R-squared value of simulated maps. Then, the model has been used to simulate expected urban land expansion before and after Ito campus establishment. Comparing resulted maps has shown that Ito campus is anticipated to have accelerated the urban land expansion process in the area by 3.3 times on average. Thus, university campuses can be considered as accelerators for the urban land expansion process of their respective cities. The significance of this paper lies in proposing a model that can be used, by urban planners and decision makers, to anticipate urban land expansion to come up with evidence-based researchinformed land management plans.

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Universities as city-builders: The city-campus development opportunity in East London–Buffalo City, South Africa

Cited by 6 publications

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Positioning the #FeesMustFall Movement within the Transformative Agenda: Reflections on Student Protests in South Africa

Positioning the #FeesMustFall Movement within the Transformative Agenda: Reflections on Student Protests in South Africa

Where to build? A suitability modelling approach for university campuses location-allocation in Japan

Agent-based modelling for spatiotemporal patterns of urban land expansion around university campuses

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