College Towns - Peculiarities Of Development And Structure
College towns are known in all parts of the world and they're particularly countless in West and Central Europe as well as in the usa
. There are about 500 colleges in the usa and the number of those colleges which have college towns exceeds 2 hundred. College towns (or university towns) are university communities consisting mostly of students as well as college staff. Sometimes they occupy a whole town and are the local center of culture, industry and business.
Many European college towns were established around old colleges. What do all of them have in common?
1.The infrastructure of the town is centred around the college - everything from printing houses and also libraries to clinics and cultural events is backed by the university.
2.The history of the town is sometimes interconnected with the past of the university.
3.This usually leads to maximum well-educated learners in the university town.
4.Another result is that the amount of young people as well as representatives of various subcultures in the town is also considerable as compared to other towns.
5.Though there's no heavy industrial company in the town it is the local centre of technological research.
6.Since the student population represents a constituent component of the whole population of the town ( even its key part) the young people are always going into and out of the town - many of the graduates leave the place and new students come to learn and live. It gives the regular presence of the youth.
It's also a famous fact that student neighborhoods and universities do not always have great relationships with the local people. Not everything is good. Educational institutions in the us and in Europe are free from paying some fees and it causes the growth of tax costs in the town. The taxes go beyond the rate all through the region.