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- Title
The Promise of the City. Adventures in learning cities and higher education. By David Wilmoth, Laneway Press, 2021, 350 pp., $39.95 (hardback), ISBN: 978‐0‐ 6450070‐3‐9 (hardback); 978‐0‐6450070‐4‐6 (ebook).
- Authors
Mercer, David
- Abstract
Like Edward Glaeser ([24]) in I Triumph of the City i , David Wilmoth makes no secret of his deep affection for large cities (along the way, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, New York, San Francisco, and Ho Chi Minh City). Unfortunately, growth was the largely unquestioned philosophy underpinning the policies of Wilmoth's two main "masters" at different times, the Commonwealth and New South Wales governments. THE 1970S While studying, Wilmoth also worked part-time for a progressive Sydney planning company run by George Clarke, who became the first of many inspirational urban research and policy mentors over the course of his career. In this, RMIT was not alone, and the establishment of physical, bricks-and-mortar campuses outside Australia was frequently promoted as being of commercial and wider benefit to the universities and the new host countries (Wilmoth, [91]). Change - or flux - is a central motif in Wilmoth's book: changing governments and policies, transient countries and cities, challenging work and personal relationships, different jobs, and - most interestingly for this reviewer - a gradual reorientation of personal values and career choices; a shift over time from youthful idealism to pragmatic realism.
- Subjects
CITIES &; towns; ADVENTURE education; SUBURBS; PUBLIC spaces; ELECTRONIC books; HIGHER education; URBAN planning
- Publication
Geographical Research, 2023, Vol 61, Issue 2, p285
- ISSN
1745-5863
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1745-5871.12577