ABSTRACT
This book is about the university and the city and the ways the relations between the two “come to ground” in land development practices. In his introduction to an influential collection of essays actually titled The University and the City, historian Thomas Bender points out how attractive the overall topic is. It is, he observes, “as capacious as it is important” with a “compelling” rhetorical ring to it because there is no doubting the important historic linkage of the two-from their “mutual medieval origins” forward (Bender 1988, 3; Pirenne 1925). In an international collection of essays, Herman van der Wusten (1998) focuses on the contemporary importance of universities to cities, and vice versa, underscoring the cultural significance of urban universities as physical features of the urban morphology and as institutional partners or, in some cases, agencies of the modern state.
