Transforming Cities and Minds Through the Scholarship of Engagement: Economy, Equity, and Environment

Author/Contributor(s):	Hoyt, Lorlene
Publisher:	Vanderbilt University Press
Date:	04/22/2013
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Written by engaged scholars and practitioners, Transforming Cities and Minds 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.