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来源

CITIES,Vol.88,P.252-260

语言

英文

关键字

Universities; Urbanization; Urban development; Global cities; Singapore; HIGHER-EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE; POLICY; STATE; CITIZENSHIP; CITY; INSTITUTIONS; INNOVATION; MODEL; TOWN

作者单位

[Addie, Jean-Paul D.] Georgia State Univ, Urban Studies Inst, 55 Pk Pl Suite 849D, Atlanta, GA 30302 USA. [Acuto, Michele] Univ Melbourne, Melbourne Sch Design, MSD Bldg Room 323,Masson Rd, Melbourne, Vic, Australia. [Ho, K. C.] Natl Univ Singapore, Dept Sociol, 11 Arts Link,AS1 03-09, Singapore 117573, Singapore. [Cairns, Stephen] ETH Zurich Future Cities Lab, 1 Create Way,CREATE Tower 06-01, Singapore 138602, Singapore. [Tan, Hwee Pink] Singapore Management Univ, Sch Informat Syst, 80 Stamford Rd, Singapore 178902, Singapore. Addie, JPD (reprint author), Georgia State Univ, Urban Studies Inst, 55 Pk Pl Suite 849D, Atlanta, GA 30302 USA. E-Mail: jaddie@gsu.edu; michele.acuto@unimelb.edu.au; sochokc@nus.edu.sg; cairns@arch.ethz.ch; hptan@smu.edu.sg

摘要

In this Cities viewpoint forum, we argue that there is a need to rethink U.S./U.K.-centric approaches to the urban university in policy and practice. Gathering three critical commentaries by practitioners from within the Singaporean higher education system, the forum responds to the challenges of: (1) broadened expectation placed on higher education institutions; (2) the pressures and possibilities of global urbanization; and (3) the provocation to theorize the urban, and thus the urban university, from beyond the 'Global North'. Following an introduction detailing the history and relevance of the Singaporean case, the three viewpoints seek to illustrate the various dimensions of university urbanism in the 'Lion City'. Each address what the idea of being an urban university means, and how it is operationalized in Singapore. Key policy and conceptual insights illuminate a higher education regime negotiating the tensions between national developmentalist agendas and the opportunities opened by global urban connectivity. Significantly, and in contrast to current urban university paradigms, we find Singapore's university sector internalizing and operating with a particular technocratic urban ontology that, while partial, helps collapses the distinction between universities being 'in', 'of, or 'for' the city and opens new avenues to analyze and mobilize universities in urban(izing) society.