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Univer-cities : strategic implications for Asia : readings from Cambridge and Berkeley, to Singapore / editor, Anthony S.C. Teo, former advisor to the President's Office, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Jersey : World Scientific, 2013Description: xvii, 138 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789814508650 (pbk.)
Contained works:
  • Carolin, Peter. Cambridge future
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.103 UNI 23 010693
Online resources:
Contents:
Cambridge future / by Peter Carolin -- Berkeley : campus and community / by Richard Bender, Emily Marthinsen and John Parman -- Conversations in futures of univer-cities in the Asia Pacific : Singapore--place & education in the 21st century / by Harold Guida and Andrew Donnelly -- Yunnan Gardens master plan / by Anthony Teo.
Summary: "Univer-cities : Strategic Implications for Asia aims to redefine the multi-faceted symbiotic relationship between universities and host cities. The four readings in this reader will invite readers to challenge the traditional view of what a university is as a place, and re-define the university as a space; drawing discoverers, creators, and seekers who are keen to preserve and enhance the value of higher education in Asia. The reader will also show how universities can make a huge and innovative impact on the immediate, surrounding, and global communities that are drawn into its ambit of its campus and sought out by the university in inter-univer-city and trans-disciplinary linkages"--
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Cambridge future / by Peter Carolin -- Berkeley : campus and community / by Richard Bender, Emily Marthinsen and John Parman -- Conversations in futures of univer-cities in the Asia Pacific : Singapore--place & education in the 21st century / by Harold Guida and Andrew Donnelly -- Yunnan Gardens master plan / by Anthony Teo.

"Univer-cities : Strategic Implications for Asia aims to redefine the multi-faceted symbiotic relationship between universities and host cities. The four readings in this reader will invite readers to challenge the traditional view of what a university is as a place, and re-define the university as a space; drawing discoverers, creators, and seekers who are keen to preserve and enhance the value of higher education in Asia. The reader will also show how universities can make a huge and innovative impact on the immediate, surrounding, and global communities that are drawn into its ambit of its campus and sought out by the university in inter-univer-city and trans-disciplinary linkages"--

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