Sentence examples for academic town from inspiring English sources

Twenty miles south of the Siberian city of Novosibirsk lies Akademgorodok, literally Academic Town.

If digital access pushed libraries to reinvent themselves, it was developments in educational theory that helped turn them into academic town squares.

EDINBURGH has been on a quest to update its image from a staid academic town to a cultural hot spot with lively festivals, a robust night life and, yes, even fashion.

The recent death of Sir Peter Hall, the country's most distinguished academic town planner, serves as a reminder of how the status of the town planner rose and fell over the course of his 50-year career.

So far, opposition has been minimal, with typical concerns about the project's impact on traffic, storm drainage and the environment, according to Ms. Paterson and Cynthia van Zelm, executive director of the Mansfield Downtown Partnership.. "There's not as much as you would expect in an academic town, where there are lots of opinions," Ms. Paterson said.

Khrushchev founded several academic towns, such as Akademgorodok.

But the company has also been criticized by union leaders, who believe Wal-Mart pushes down wages, and by academics, town planners and others who worry that Wal-Mart fosters suburban sprawl.

Come visit Budapest — where one professor told me this week, "I may be the only academic in town who didn't study on a Soros scholarship" — to appreciate how rich the reward could be.

The reason is Act 60, a law which transforms education finance by taking from rich towns and giving to poor ones.Until this academic year, each town in Vermont (like many towns in other states) paid for its own public schools with local property taxes determined by resident tax assessors.

Her characters are estate agents, academics, small-town lawyers and paediatricians, the odd defunct movie star, who when they aren't doling out mordant put-downs ("She eyed Agnes's outfit as if it might be what in fact it was: a couple of blue things purchased in a department store") are blinking rapidly to absorb them.

The word peppers casual conversation, is woven into academic papers, dominates town hall meetings and online commentaries.