The University of Oporto and the Process of Urban Change: An Ambiguous Relationship

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2008

Authors

Isabel Breda Vázquez (Author) FEUP; Paulo Conceição (Author) FEUP; Sónia Alves (Author) FEUP

Book

Title: Global Universities and Urban Development: Case Studies and Analysis

Pages: 226-254

ISBN: 978-0-7656-2039-2

Publisher: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Scientific classification

FOS: Social sciences > Other social sciences

Other information

Abstract (EN): This chapter analyses the role of the university as a promoter of urban development in the city of Oporto, in Portugal. The argument is developed as follows: i) the university is an important operator in urban change; ii) however, the relationship established between the university¿s real estate policy, the territory itself and urban policies is ambiguous and marked by a gulf which exists between the university¿s strategies and the specific problems of the urban context to which it belongs; iii) any interpretation of this ambiguity requires an analysis based on institutions, or on institutional relationships and capacities. This argument emphasizes the ambiguous and contingent role played by the university in the process of urban development and recognizes that this role is not always explicitly incorporated into the strategy of the main urban agents, such as the local authority or the university itself.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 28