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Book SynopsisUltimately, this book is a considered and long overdue look at the symbiotic impact of these two great American institutions: the city and the university.
Trade ReviewDiner’s slim volume provides a good historical foundation for tracing the shifts in higher education and urban spaces in the United States . . . Diner’s synthetic yet expansive book deserves inclusion in courses grappling with the role of higher education in American life.
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The History TeacherDiner approaches these institutions with a deep sensitivity to the challenges and opportunities they have faced over the past century and an acute eye for opportunities missed and the forces of inertia that have occasionally held them back. For those who study higher education, as well as those employed in urban institutions, Diner's study will provide useful insights into the particular circumstances in which they work. Perhaps more important, this history charts the development of a set of ideas and institutional arrangements for anyone in higher education who objects to the view of academia as a remote ivory tower.
—Robert B. Townsend, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; author of
History's Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise, 1880–1940,
IsisHighly informative study of the relationship between higher education and the metropolis... Urban colleges and universities continue to defy a tidy definition, as they have for decades. For anyone seeking to better understand that complexity,
Universities and Their Cities is an excellent place to start.
—Charles Dorn, Bowdoin College,
History of EducationDiner's superb scholarship documents how and where colleges and their communities have changed. Whereas a half century ago the "urban crisis" sounded an alarm of inner-city population decline, migration out to the suburbs, and the flourishing of traditional campuses, the situation in the twenty-first century is markedly different.
—John R. Thelin, University of Kentucky,
History of Education QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceChapter 1: The Collegiate Ideal and 19th Century CitiesChapter 2: Urban Reality, 1900-1945Chapter 3: Postwar Higher Education and the Needs of Cities, 1945-1963 Chapter 4: Response to the Urban Crisis, 1964-1980Chapter 5: Government, Universities and the Urban Crisis, 1964-1980Chapter 6: The Legacy of the Urban Crisis and the Ever-Changing City, 1981-2016Conclusion NotesIndex
