Univer-cities : strategic implications for Asia : readings from Cambridge and Berkeley, to Singapore / / editor, Anthony S.C. Teo

• Pubblicazione: New Jersey, : World Scientific, 2013; New Jersey : , : World Scientific, , [2013]; �2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 138 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
• Disciplina: 378.1/03
• Soggetto topico: University towns - Asia; Community and college - Asia
• Altri autori: CarolinPeter
• Persona (resp. second.): TeoAnthony S. C. <1944->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Univer-cities
• ISBN: 981-4508-66-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814171903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II