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. This 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-displinary linkages.Written by worldly academic leaders and professionals from Berkeley; Cambridge; Canberra and Singapore mdash; who are prominent in fields of higher education strategy; campus cum urban planning; design; and architecture mdash; the readings will shed some light on the future and power of univer-cities. It also shares seven strategic implications the concept has on Asian universities mdash; this is especially timely and apt for a part of the world where education; togetherness; hard work; high-savings rates; and economic growth are emerging tectonic changes that the trinity of China; India and the Southeast Asian region engenders. It is no wonder that several top Asian cities have universities that have been ranked among the Top 50 universities in the world.Contents:Setting the Conversation on Univer-Cities: Strategic Implications for Asia (Anthony SC Teo)Cambridge Futures: Enabling Consensus on Growth and Change (Peter Carolin)Berkeley: Campus and Community (Richard Bender; Emily Marthinsen; and John Parman)Conversations in Futures of Univer-Cities in the Asia Pacific: Singapore mdash; Place and Education in the 21st Century (Harold Guida and Andrew Donnelly)Yunnan Gardens Master Plan (with Postscripts) (Anthony SC Teo)AppendixIndexReadership: Campus planners; architects; landscape and lighting consultants; city planners; mayors; futurists; educators.
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