Towards a sustainable campus-city relationship: A systematic review of the literature

doi:10.1016/j.regsus.2022.03.004

Abstract

Abstract:

The relationship between a university and its city is considered strategical to achieve university targeted ambitions and visions. The university-city relationship is also encouraged for the benefit of the city, as universities unleash their respective cities’ potentials to act as driving forces not only for their local communities, but also for the whole nation. Therefore, maintaining a mutual relationship between the university and the city is considered essential to accomplish strategic goals for both. However, the nature of this relationship is quite complex, overlapped, interconnected, and diverse. Therefore, this paper conducted a systematic review of the literature on university-city and campus-city relationships to evaluate recent research trends to uncover the aspects that connect universities with their respective cities. The search included articles published in 4 different databases from January 1990 to January 2021. A total number of 50 articles were selected in this review. The findings uncovered different aspects that could help or hinder university-city relationship based on the physical and functional linkage between the campus and the city. Moreover, findings have shown that it is necessary to understand universities according to their contextual differences, as universities have shown different impacts on their respective cities in terms of their sizes and locations. Results have also shown that the impact of the physical connection between the university and the city goes far beyond campus’s accessibility as it deeply affects students’ social life as well. Therefore, decision makers, stakeholders, and university administrators need to co-design campus development process especially in the early stages to maximize the mutual benefits of campus-city relationship. The main conclusions of this paper address several perspectives and lessons for a more sustainable campus-city relationship.

Key words: Campus-city relationship, University-city relationship, University engagement, Stakeholders' partnership, Sustainability, Urbanization

Ahmed Mohammed Sayed MOHAMMED, Tetsuya UKAI, Michael HALL. Towards a sustainable campus-city relationship: A systematic review of the literature[J]. Regional Sustainability, 2022, 3(1): 53-67.

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Categorization of the selected articles to the corresponding aspect and category of campus-city relationship."

Aspect of campus-city relationship	Article	Category of campus-city relationship
Safety and security	Aqli (2019)	Physical relationship
Safety and security	Cundiff (2021)	Physical relationship
Design and spatial configuration	Adhya (2009)	Physical relationship
	Robertson (2013)	Functional relationship
	Hodson and Sander (2017)	Functional relationship
	Kim et al. (2018)	Functional relationship
	Namvar et al. (2019)	Physical relationship
	Li and Wang (2020)	Physical relationship
	Yaylali-Yildiz et al. (2020)	Physical relationship
	Hamlin (2021)	Physical relationship
Transportation mode	Daggett and Gutkowski (2003)	Functional relationship
	Etminani-Ghasrodashti et al. (2018)	Functional relationship
	Sun et al. (2018)	Functional relationship
	Yu et al. (2018)	Functional relationship
	Alexander and Massaro (2020)	Physical relationship
Smartness and greenness	Yang (2015)	Functional relationship
	Verstaevel et al. (2017)	Functional relationship
	He et al. (2020)	Functional relationship
Residential pattern	Munro et al. (2009)	Functional relationship
	Muslim et al. (2013)	Functional relationship
	Bonal et al. (2019)	Functional relationship
	Moos et al. (2019)	Functional relationship
Stakeholders’ partnership	Russo et al. (2007)	Functional relationship
	Hoyt (2010)	Functional relationship
	Kiraz (2014)	Functional relationship
	Ngo and Trinh (2016)	Physical and functional relationship
	Abdelaal and Abdelaal (2019)	Functional relationship
	Addie (2019)	Functional relationship
	Morisson and Szumilo (2019)	Functional relationship
Community engagement	Frost et al. (2004)	Functional relationship
	Bunnell and Lawson (2006)	Functional relationship
	Theodora (2008)	Physical and functional relationship
	Lowe (2008)	Functional relationship
	Höyssä (2014)	Functional relationship
	Bank and Sibanda (2018)	Functional relationship
	Piazza (2018)	Functional relationship
Cityness and globalization	Wallace (2000)	Functional relationship
	Veltz (2001)	Functional relationship
	Benneworth et al. (2010)	Functional relationship
	van Geenhuizen and Soetanto (2012)	Functional relationship
	Harner and Kinder (2013)	Physical and functional relationship
	Balducci and Fedeli (2014)	Physical and functional relationship
	Gohari and Holsen (2016)	Functional relationship
	Borsi and Schulte (2018)	Functional relationship
	Bott (2018)	Functional relationship
	Ransom (2018)	Functional relationship
	Brennan and Cochrane (2019)	Functional relationship
	Fassi (2020)	Functional relationship
	Soares et al. (2020)	Physical and functional relationship
	Oh (2022)	Physical and functional relationship

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