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 large-scale towns, such as Humboldt area in Berlin, Heidelberg and Uppsala in Sweden. People call this gathering of institutions of higher learning "University Town".
Concept definition
There are two main ways to form foreign university towns: one is naturally formed, such as Boston in the United States, Oxford and Cambridge in the United Kingdom, all of which are naturally formed after more than 100 years of history.
The other is active construction, such as Charlottesville, State College, Madison and Tsukuba University Town in Japan. They were jointly built by the state, local governments, universities and enterprises with the rapid development of higher education after World War II.
Generally, a university town has at least one large comprehensive university, or some relatively small but large number of small colleges, such as arts and sciences colleges and community colleges. The local residents of the university town are generally school employees and teachers, while the number of foreign students generally exceeds that of local residents.
University towns in Europe are generally proud of having ancient universities, which are not only educational and cultural centers, but sometimes become political centers because of their great social and cultural influence.
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