College Towns - Features of Development and Structure
College Towns - Features of Development and Structure
College towns are known in all parts of the world and they're countless in West and Central Europe as well as in the usa. There are over 500 universities in the us and the number of them that have college towns exceeds 2 hundred. College towns (or university towns) are university communities consisting mostly of students and college staff. Sometimes they occupy an entire town and are the center of culture, industry as well as business. Many European university towns were established around old universities. What do all of them have in common?
1.The infrastructure of the town is focused around the college - from printing houses and libraries to clinics and cultural events is backed by the college.
2.The history of the college town is sometimes closely interconnected with the past of the college.
3.This leads to a high rate of well-educated students in the college town.
4.One more result is that the amount of young people and representatives of various subcultures in the town is significant as opposed to other towns.
5.Although there's no heavy industrial enterprise in the town it has become the center of technological research. 6.Since the student population signifies a constituent portion of the whole population of the town (sometimes even its key part) the young people are always going into and out of the town - most of the college graduates leave the place and new students come to study and live. It provides the constant presence of the younger generation. It's also a well-known fact that student neighborhoods and universities do not always have great relationships with the local residents. Not everything is good. Educational institutions in the usa and in Europe are free from paying fees and it causes the growth of tax prices in the town. These taxes often exceed the rate all through the region.