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作者

Jean-Paul D. Addie;Michele Acuto;K.C. Ho;Stephen Cairns;Hwee Pink Tan

来源

CITIES,Vol.88,Issue1,Pages 252-260

语言

英文

关键字

Universities;Urbanization;Urban development;Global cities;Singapore

作者单位

Urban Studies Institute, Georgia State University, 55 Park Place Suite 849D, Atlanta, GA 30302, United States;Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, MSD Building Room 323, Masson Road, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, 11 Arts Link, AS1 #03-09, 117573, Singapore;ETH Zürich Future Cities Laboratory, 1 Create Way, CREATE Tower #06-01, Singapore 138602;School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, 178902, Singapore;Urban Studies Institute, Georgia State University, 55 Park Place Suite 849D, Atlanta, GA 30302, United States;Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, MSD Building Room 323, Masson Road, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, 11 Arts Link, AS1 #03-09, 117573, Singapore;ETH Zürich Future Cities Laboratory, 1 Create Way, CREATE Tower #06-01, Singapore 138602;School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, 178902, Singapore

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.