05-13-2010, 01:18 AM
Sanjeev Sanyal: Building Bostons, not Kanpurs
Why Indian cities must leverage their universities
Sanjeev Sanyal / May 12, 2010, 0:36 IST
Around the world, universities are the stuff that makes great cities. Imagine Boston without Harvard, MIT and the myriad other institutions that are clustered around the Boston-Cambridge area. In Britain, Oxford and Cambridge are vibrant urban centres that derive their vigour almost entirely from playing host to famous universities. Even large and diversified global cities like London and New York would be much diminished without the intellectual clustering of LSE, Columbia, UCL and NYU. In each case, the universities are an integral part of the urban landscape and are consciously leveraged by their host cities. http://www.business-standard.com/india/n...rs/394495/
Why Indian cities must leverage their universities
Sanjeev Sanyal / May 12, 2010, 0:36 IST
Around the world, universities are the stuff that makes great cities. Imagine Boston without Harvard, MIT and the myriad other institutions that are clustered around the Boston-Cambridge area. In Britain, Oxford and Cambridge are vibrant urban centres that derive their vigour almost entirely from playing host to famous universities. Even large and diversified global cities like London and New York would be much diminished without the intellectual clustering of LSE, Columbia, UCL and NYU. In each case, the universities are an integral part of the urban landscape and are consciously leveraged by their host cities. http://www.business-standard.com/india/n...rs/394495/