This book presents international experiences of territorial strategies and urban projects in which universities have played a major role over the past fifteen years, through spatial planning and within a multiscalar approach.
This approach constitutes the book’s first originality, illustrating the complexity of certain cases (such as New York, London, or the Greater Paris Metropolis) by highlighting the significant interconnections between spatial and institutional scales. The second innovative aspect lies in the selection of case studies, some of which are addressed for the first time in international literature (Benguerir in Morocco, Bergamo in Italy, Grenoble, Lille, Marseille, and Lyon in France, and Hanoi in Vietnam), while others are still little known from the perspective of university planning and its (political and economic) role in major metropolitan areas (Greater Paris Metropolis, Seoul). The third key point explores the opportunity to directly compare well-established Western metropolises like New York and London with the evolving Greater Paris Metropolis. It also highlights Montreal, a city blending Anglo-Saxon and French influences, while seeking its own unique path. Additionally, Asia’s dynamic role is explored, from China’s innovative university planning to Hanoi’s ambitious projects and Seoul’s tension between national policies and metropolitan ambitions.
All chapters have been designed to raise questions, provoke reflections, and develop a perspective on the ongoing evolution of territorial strategies that leverage universities and the research conducted within them as a means to drive economic growth and increase productivity. These strategies also converge toward an image of the city as a knowledge hub, facilitating relationships between universities, businesses, and city users.
1. Introduction: Promoting the urban knowledge economy (Patrizia Ingallina and David Charles) Part One: The role of the university in the urban knowledge economy 2. Re-embedding the Universities (Michael Indergaard) 3. The general reorganization of universities and research institutes in the strategic plan of the Ile de France Region (Patrizia Ingallina and Anne-Marie Romera) 4. Urban Policies (Peter Newman) 5. Difficult relations between firms and R&D institutes in the French medium-sized cities (Bruno Lusso) 6. Comparison and perspectives of Universities' urban policies between the USA and the EU (Helene Dang Vu) 7. Bari: the loose integration of the university system in a metropolitan border city (Nicola Martinelli and Giovanna Mangialardi) 8. The University as a New Driving Force in the Polish planning system (Anna Geppert) Part Two: Urban Design Projects. Restructuring and Designing New University Quarters 9. Potsdam : the emergence of a modern university town (Klaus Kunzmann) 10. From 'budding' to 'blighting': The role of the Italian university in urban regeneration processes (Michelangelo Savino) 11. Rethinking the university campus in an industrial city: Newcastle (David Charles) 12. Science cities and polycentric knowledge-based urban development (Paul Benneworth) 13. A new development for universities in Rome (Patrizia Ingallina and Anne-Marie Romera) 14. Building University Cities in China: A Case Study of Nanjing (Klaus Kunzmann and Xi Yin) 15. Restructuring the North-East of Paris by a Human Sciences Pole (Patrizia Ingallina and Anne-Marie Romera) Part Three: Towards new 'Spaces of Knowledge 16. The Value of Knowing : Path dependency and smart specialisation: a Manchester UK Case Study (Cathy Garner and Philip Ternouth) 17. Co-production of University-city engagement: Australian projects to enhance mutual attractiveness and interaction (David Charles) 18. Educational clusters as a sustainable development tendency in the frame of a linear city structure (Elina Krasilnikova) 19. Which ecosystem for Grenoble's knowledge economy? (Gilles Novarina, Charles Ambrosino, Rachel Linossier and Magali Talandier) 20. Digital Media City in Seoul: towards new sustainable and innovative urban future (Jungyoon Park) 21. Afterword: The complex relations between the growing urban universities, in New York, and the neighborhoods around them (Sharon Zukin) Conclusions (Patrizia Ingallina and David Charles)
Patrizia Ingallina is Professor of Urban Planning and Urban Design Project at Sorbonne University (Paris, France) where she directs the master’s degree in urban planning.
