New Educational Urban Area, University Town

Abstract

The new educational urban area is a so-called university town. In the 1940s, American scholar Harris, in his research on the classification of the American city, considered cities with more than 25 % of the population having university enrollments as a university town. Taking American and British university towns as representatives of foreign university towns, there is the largest number of university towns in the United States as, according to the statistics, the USA has at least 58 university towns. As for famous university towns in foreign countries, there are Oxford University Town and Cambridge University Town in the UK, Harvard University Town in Boston and Massachusetts Institute of Technology University Town in the USA. In the existing academic environment, many are researching the university town from the perspective of education but few from the urban development perspective.