University town refers to the residential town formed by higher education. Generally speaking, university towns were formed in Europe and first appeared in some countries with developed higher education, such as Britain and America.

In the process of university development, the scale of university development has expanded, and some universities have gathered together, making the surrounding areas of universities or the university campus itself become larger towns, such as Humboldt area in Berlin, Heidelberg and Uppsala in Sweden. People call this gathering of institutions of higher learning University Town.

Cultural characteristics

1, historic

From the perspective of university culture, the culture of university town has historical accumulation, focusing on cultural assimilation, that is, inheriting the existing culture through teaching, scientific research and community activities, so that young people can gradually complete the socialization process. Colleges and universities are one of the important institutions of cultural assimilation, and the last relatively systematic and organized institution for students to go to society, which plays a key role in the process of youth socialization.

A university town with universities as its core and facilities such as community and business district is more social than the traditional universities in the past, and its cultural and historical accumulation and inheritance functions are more distinct.

Step 2 synthesize

Judging from the cultural relationship between universities, the culture of university town is relatively integrated, and the sharing and integration of culture can be gradually realized through the sharing of teaching resources. Compared with traditional universities, the culture of university town is more open. Although universities are relatively independent, they all belong to the same university town.

First of all, there are similarities between architectural planning and regional culture; With the deepening of running a school, colleges and universities will gradually share teaching resources such as teaching equipment, courses and teachers, or informal student associations, and finally integrate into a relatively harmonious university city culture with university characteristics.

3. Innovation and innovation

From the perspective of cultural transformation between universities and enterprises, the university town culture is innovative, which can further transform the created new culture into other forms and even produce direct social and economic benefits. Because cultural innovation needs the long-term accumulation of culture and the support of advanced talents and hardware, colleges and universities have always been an important position for cultural innovation.

In the big environment of university town, because the connection between university and society is more natural and close, and the channels of cultural transformation are smoother, the elements of cultural innovation in universities can be transformed more conveniently and directly, thus producing social and economic effects.

Step 4 spread

Judging from the relationship between university culture and community culture, university city culture is spreading. Through long-term contact with the surrounding communities, university culture spreads to the surrounding communities, absorbs the cultural characteristics of the communities at the same time, and may even form an integrated cultural whole through cultural adaptation.