Author: Arthur Coleman Monahan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Agricultural education Languages : en Pages : 1040
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Gives a brief account of the following surveys: Swiss, English, Belgian, Scotch, Irish, German and Austrian, French, New South Wales, Swedish, New Zealand and Canadian.
Author: John Goddard Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 178471772X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 341
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This innovative book addresses the leadership and management challenges of maximising the contribution of universities to civil society both locally and globally. It does this by developing a model of the civic university as an academic concept, drawing out practical lessons for university management on how to embed civic engagement in the heartland of the university. To this end, the contributors compare experiences and reports on a developmental process in eight institutions: University College London and Newcastle University in the UK, Amsterdam and Groningen Universities in the Netherlands, Aalto and Tampere Universities in Finland and Trinity College Dublin and Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland. It will be of interest to academics of politics, public policy and management studies, as well as having relevance to policymakers in the field.
Author: Shannon Mattern Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 069122675X Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 200
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A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer reveals how cities encompass myriad forms of local and indigenous intelligences and knowledge institutions, arguing that these resources are a vital supplement and corrective to increasingly prevalent algorithmic models. Shannon Mattern begins by examining the ethical and ontological implications of urban technologies and computational models, discussing how they shape and in many cases profoundly limit our engagement with cities. She looks at the methods and underlying assumptions of data-driven urbanism, and demonstrates how the "city-as-computer" metaphor, which undergirds much of today's urban policy and design, reduces place-based knowledge to information processing. Mattern then imagines how we might sustain institutions and infrastructures that constitute more diverse, open, inclusive urban forms. She shows how the public library functions as a steward of urban intelligence, and describes the scales of upkeep needed to sustain a city's many moving parts, from spinning hard drives to bridge repairs. Incorporating insights from urban studies, data science, and media and information studies, A City Is Not a Computer offers a visionary new approach to urban planning and design.
Author: Thomas J. Frusciano Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 9780813523477 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 314
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An illustrated history of one of America's premier private universities, from its beginnings in 1831, and within the context of the social, political, and economic history of New York City. Vividly illustrated with both historical and contemporary images, the relationship between university and city is examined through biographical portraits of the personalities who made contributions to both. 250 illustrations.
Author: Thomas Bender Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195067754 Category : City and town life Languages : en Pages : 330
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This book contains an innovative and important series of studies of the complex relations of major cities associated with key moments in the history of higher learning in the West. By exploring the interplay of university learning and civic culture over the centuries, Bender provides a novel perspective on the history of both universities and cities. The theme is pursued in studies of Bologna, Paris, Florence, Leiden, Geneva, Edinburgh, London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Chicago, and New York by several distinguished scholars, including Gene Brucker, Carl Schorske, Edward Shils, Martin Jay, and Nathan Glazer.
Author: Arthur Coleman Monahan
Author: Association of urban universities
Author: John Goddard
Author: Roscoe Huhn Eckelberry
Author: Shannon Mattern
Author: John Letcher Patterson
Author: Thomas J. Frusciano
Author: Association of urban universities
Author: Parke Rexford Kolbe
Author: Thomas Bender