Transforming Cities and Minds through the Scholarship of Engagement: Economy, Equity, and Environment - Hardback

Written by engaged scholars and practitioners, Transforming Minds and Cities is an "instrument-for-action" on the problems faced by U.S. cities that have suffered from decades of disinvestment. The book advocates the concept of reciprocal knowledge: real learning on both sides, campus and city, through a complex network of human relationships. Across the country from Camden to Oakland, the contributors engaged with community partners--hospitals, churches, community development corporations, community foundations, and other rooted institutions--to help restore old cities to life. Their collaborative thesis project engaged them with one another and university staff; it may offer a new paradigm for graduate education.

• | Author: Lorlene Hoyt
• | Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 22, 2013
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0826519040
• | ISBN-13: 9780826519047